ArticleMaternal and child health journal2012
The importance of social networks on smoking: perspectives of women who quit smoking during pregnancy.
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- Factors influencing the uptake and use of nicotine replacement therapy and e-cigarettes in pregnant women who smoke: a qualitative evidence synthesis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Psychosocial interventions for supporting women to stop smoking in pregnancy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Psychosocial interventions for supporting women to stop smoking in pregnancy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Delivering safe sleep and breastfeeding education to pregnant and new mothers through private Facebook groups: study protocol for a 4-armed randomized controlled trial.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Effect of Helpers Stay Quit Online Training on Preventing Smoking Relapse and Personal Networks: Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial and Embedded Mixed Methods Personal Network Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Socio-economic contextual determinants and behavioral changes during pregnancy: evidence from the "MAMI-MED" cohort.Population health metrics · 2025Article
- Infant Safe Sleep Practices as Portrayed on Instagram: Observational Study.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2021Article
- Development of the genomic inflammatory index (GII) to assess key maternal antecedents associated with placental inflammation.Placenta · 2021Article
- A social-contextual investigation of smoking among rural women: multi-level factors associated with smoking status and considerations for cessation.Rural and remote health · 2018Article
- Improving Behavioral Support for Smoking Cessation in Pregnancy: What Are the Barriers to Stopping and Which Behavior Change Techniques Can Influence These? Application of Theoretical Domains Framework.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Unassisted Quitting and Smoking Cessation Methods Used in the United States: Analyses of 2010-2011 Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey Data.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2017Article
- Transitions in Smokers' Social Networks After Quit Attempts: A Latent Transition Analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2016Article
- Social Networks and Smoking in Rural Women: Intervention Implications.American journal of health behavior · 2016Article
- "I have never experienced any problem with my health. So far, it hasn't been harmful": older Greek-Australian smokers' views on smoking: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2015Article
- A content analysis of attributions for resuming smoking or maintaining abstinence in the post-partum period.Maternal and child health journal · 2015Article
- A content analysis of self-reported barriers and facilitators to preventing postpartum smoking relapse among a sample of current and former smokers in an underserved population.Health education research · 2015Article
- The Phenomenological, Social Network, Social Norms, and Economic Context of Substance Use and HIV Prevention and Treatment: A Poverty of Meanings.Substance use & misuse · 2015Article
- A qualitative analysis of messages to promote smoking cessation among pregnant women.BMJ open · 2014Article
- Smoking and pregnancy--a review on the first major environmental risk factor of the unborn.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2013Review
- Social Support and Smoking during Pregnancy.Journal of women's health careArticle
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Abstract
While up to 45% of women quit smoking during pregnancy, nearly 80% return to smoking within a year after delivery. Interventions to prevent relapse have had limited success. The study objective was to understand what influences return to smoking after pregnancy among women who quit smoking during pregnancy, with a focus on the role of social networks. We conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews during the postpartum hospital stay with women who quit smoking while pregnant. Over 300 pages of transcripts were analyzed using qualitative methods to identify common themes. Respondents [n = 24] were predominately white (63%), had at least some college education (54%) and a mean age of 26 years (range = 18-36). When reflecting on the experience of being a smoker who quit smoking during pregnancy, all participants emphasized the importance of their relationships with other smokers and the changes in these relationships that ensued once they quit smoking. Three common themes were: (1) being enmeshed in social networks with prominent smoking norms (2) being tempted to smoke by members of their social networks, and (3) changing relationships with the smokers in their social networks as a result of their non-smoking status. We found that women who quit smoking during pregnancy found themselves confronted by a change in their social network since most of those in their social network were smokers. For this reason, smoking cessation interventions may be most successful if they help women consider restructuring or reframing their social network.
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