ArticleQualitative health research2008
Smoking and harm-reduction efforts among postpartum women.
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- Clinician responses to cannabis use during pregnancy and lactation: a systematic review and integrative mixed-methods research synthesis.Family practice · 2022Pooled it
- A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Phone-based Intervention for Smoking Cessation and Relapse Prevention in the Postpartum Period.Journal of addiction medicineTrial
- Negotiating health: A qualitative analysis of home smoking rules among families with medically vulnerable infants.Tobacco induced diseases · 2026Article
- Non-smoker and smoker identity related to mother-identity among (pre)pregnant women before and after participating in a smoking cessation intervention.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2025Article
- Mediation of the effect of prenatal maternal smoking on time to natural menopause in daughters by birthweight-for-gestational-age z-score and breastfeeding duration: analysis of two UK birth cohorts born in 1958 and 1970.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Cost-effectiveness of stop smoking incentives for medicaid-enrolled pregnant women.Preventive medicine · 2021Article
- Improving fetal lung development with vitamin C and reducing asthma in children.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2018Article
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- The importance of social networks on smoking: perspectives of women who quit smoking during pregnancy.Maternal and child health journal · 2012Article
- Applying anthropology to eliminate tobacco-related health disparities.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2012Review
- A qualitative study of postpartum mothers' intention to smoke.Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2012Article
- Breastfeeding and smoking among low-income women: results of a longitudinal qualitative study.Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2008Article
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Abstract
The authors present findings from a qualitative study on postpartum smoking among low-income women ( N = 44) who had been smokers at the onset of pregnancy. Interview data collected after delivery at Months 1, 3, and 6 postpartum are discussed to explore contextual factors contributing to smoking abstinence, relapse, and harm-reduction practices. By 6 months postpartum, 10 women (23%) had completely quit, 21 women (48%) had reduced their smoking by 50% of their prepregnancy levels, and 7 women (16%) had reduced their smoking by one third of their prepregnancy levels. Thus, the majority of the women were engaging in significant harm-reduction efforts despite being entrenched in high-risk smoking environments where they were provided with few messages to quit. Many mothers were concerned about their moral identity as a smoker and expressed concerns that their child might initiate smoking at an early age. Future programs targeting this population should acknowledge women's harm-reduction efforts in environments where smoking is normative.
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