ArticleMaternal and child health journal2015
Timing of prenatal smoking cessation or reduction and infant birth weight: evidence from the United Kingdom Millennium Cohort Study.
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- Meta-Analysis on Associations of Timing of Maternal Smoking Cessation Before and During Pregnancy With Childhood Overweight and Obesity.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023Pooled it
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- Active or passive maternal smoking increases the risk of low birth weight or preterm delivery: Benefits of cessation and tobacco control policies.Tobacco induced diseases · 2023Review
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- Maternal cigarette smoking before and during pregnancy and the risk of preterm birth: A dose-response analysis of 25 million mother-infant pairs.PLoS medicine · 2020Article
- Maternal tobacco use: A third-trimester risk factor for small-for-gestational-age pregnancy outcome.Preventive medicine reports · 2020Article
- Smoking Cessation and Pregnancy: Timing of Cessation Reduces or Eliminates the Effect on Low Birth Weight.Maternal and child health journal · 2019Article
- Randomized factorial experiment of components of the SmokeFree Baby smartphone application to aid smoking cessation in pregnancy.Translational behavioral medicine · 2019Article
- Reducing fetal origins of childhood obesity through maternal smoking cessation during pregnancy: an intervention study.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2019Article
- Responses to cigarette health warning labels, harm perceptions and knowledge in a national sample of pregnant and non-pregnant women of reproductive age.Addictive behaviors · 2019Article
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- Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy: Do Complete Abstinence and Low Level Cigarette Smoking Have Similar Impact on Birth Weight?Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2017Article
- Risks of Preterm Delivery and Small for Gestational Age Infants: Effects of Nondaily and Low-Intensity Daily Smoking During Pregnancy.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2017Article
- Development of SmokeFree Baby: a smoking cessation smartphone app for pregnant smokers.Translational behavioral medicine · 2016Article
- Disparities in Maternal Child and Health Outcomes Attributable to Prenatal Tobacco Use.Maternal and child health journal · 2016Article
- Usability testing of a smoking cessation smartphone application ('SmokeFree Baby'): A think-aloud study with pregnant smokers.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
Smoking during pregnancy is a key contributor to poor infant health. Our study presents a dynamic relationship between the timing of prenatal smoking cessation or reduction and infant birth weight. Using a large representative dataset of a birth cohort in the United Kingdom, we apply regression analysis to examine the influences of cessation in smoking or reduction in smoking intensity at different months or trimesters on infant birth weight. For robustness checks, we use a rich set of additional covariates, a series of variable selection procedures, alternative birth outcome measures, and stratified samples. We find robust evidence that mothers who quit smoking by the third month of pregnancy or the end of the first trimester have infants of the same weight as those infants of nonsmokers. However, we find smoking cessation in the fourth month or any time beyond is associated with substantially lower infant birth weights. Two-thirds of the total adverse smoking impact on infant birth weight occurs in the second trimester. Our study also shows mothers who smoke throughout pregnancy but cut smoking intensity by the third month in pregnancy deliver infants of the same weight as those infants born to persistent light smokers. Our research suggests the efficacy of prenatal smoking cessation services can be significantly improved, if health professionals can encourage more pregnant women to quit smoking or reduce smoking intensity timely by the end of the first trimester.
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