Sentences with phrase «smoking by a pregnant woman»

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It is estimated that if all pregnant women would quit smoking, the incidence of infant deaths would decrease by at least 10 percent.

It's the same machine she'll use back in Guatemala, to measure how pregnant women, their children and the elderly are affected by smoke from cook stoves.

The results came from a review of 19 studies done in Europe, North and South America, and Asia which focused on non-smoking pregnant women who were exposed to second - hand smoke in the workplace by colleagues or in the home by their partners.

Smoking should be avoided by pregnant women taking choline supplements.

• Interventions to tackle smoking by pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women should focus on the social environment and the influences of social networks and partners rather than the traditional predictors of anenatal smoking, a study suggests.

Project activities include increasing the number of providers who screen, advise, and refer patients to the North Carolina Quitline, distributing patient and provider education materials statewide, developing best - practice, sustainable, community based smoking cessation projects for women, pregnant women, and new moms, and creating continuity of care by focusing on the preconception, prenatal and perinatal periods, and including an emphasis on preventing postpartum relapse and eliminating second - hand smoke exposure.

A qualitative study of pregnant Indigenous women in Perth found that women commonly referred to smoking as normal, a stress release, a low health priority and a social experience, and commented that it was difficult to quit because they were surrounded by smoking from their family and household members.11 In the social context of high smoking rates and large numbers of adults per household, smoking may offer an opportunity to alleviate stress, acting as a social lubricant in «time - out, yarning, and sharing with others».11 This provides a critical target for intervention in antenatal smoking; in order to help women to quit, it seems that consideration of and involvement with the social context in which women live are essential.

For many women, pregnancy acts as a significant prompt to quit smoking.8, 9 Around one in five pregnant smokers quit by the time of their first antenatal visit.10, 11 Those who experience social disadvantage, and those who are heavy smokers, less educated, or exposed to SHS in the home are less likely to quit.12, 13

As this may impose significant health impacts through fetal genetic programming, more efforts should be made to reduce fetal tobacco exposure by educating pregnant women to not smoke and motivating smokers to quit in early pregnancy.