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Trial reportBMC public health2014

The needs and preferences of pregnant smokers regarding tailored Internet-based smoking cessation interventions: a qualitative interview study.

Aleksandra Herbec, Emma Beard, Jamie Brown, Benjamin Gardner, Ildiko Tombor, Robert West

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in BMC public health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05711225 (The Effect of Smoking Cessation Intervention in Pregnancy According to the Web-Based Transtheoretic Model on Postpartum Smoking Relapse), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05711225 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2021, after this paper: background citation

The Effect of Smoking Cessation Intervention in Pregnancy According to the Web-Based Transtheoretic Model on Postpartum Smoking Relapse

TypeinterventionalSponsorSemra YILMAZRan2021 to 2022Enrolled70ConditionsPostpartum Smoking RelapseArmssmoking cessation intervention given according to the web-based transtheoretic model during pregnancy on postpartum smoking relapse.
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Smoking Cessation Apps: A Systematic Review of Format, Outcomes, and Features.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  5. Digitalizing Specialist Smoking Cessation Support in Pregnancy: Views of Pregnant Smokers.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025
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  15. Smoking Cessation Support by Text Message During Pregnancy: A Qualitative Study of Views and Experiences of the MiQuit Intervention.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Aleksandra HerbecCancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. aaherbec@gmail.com.
Emma Beard
Jamie Brown
Benjamin Gardner
Ildiko Tombor
Robert West
University College London · GBCancer Research UK · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilBritish Heart FoundationCancer Research UK 14135Medical Research Council G0802035Medical Research Council MR/K023195/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundInternet-based Smoking Cessation Interventions (ISCIs) may help pregnant smokers who are unable, or unwilling, to access face-to-face stop smoking support. Targeting ISCIs to specific groups of smokers could increase their uptake and effectiveness. The current study explored the needs and preferences of pregnant women seeking online stop smoking support with an aim to identify features and components of ISCIs that might be most attractive to this population.

methodsWe conducted qualitative interviews with thirteen pregnant women who completed the intervention arm of a pilot randomized controlled trial of a novel ISCI for pregnant smokers ('MumsQuit'). The interviews explored women's views towards MumsQuit and online support with quitting smoking in general, as well as their suggestions for how ISCIs could be best targeted to pregnancy. Interview transcripts were analyzed using Framework Analysis.

resultsParticipants expressed preferences for an accessible, highly engaging and targeted to pregnancy smoking cessation website, tailored to individuals' circumstances as well as use of cessation medication, offering comprehensive and novel information on smoking and quitting smoking in pregnancy, ongoing support with cravings management, as well as additional support following relapse to smoking. Participants also viewed as important targeting of the feedback and progress reports to baby's health and development, offering personal support from experts, and providing a discussion forum allowing for communication with other pregnant women wanting to quit .

conclusionsThe present study has identified a number of potential building blocks for ISCIs targeted to quitting smoking in pregnancy. Pregnant smokers willing to try using ISCI may particularly value an engaging intervention offering a high degree of targeting of comprehensive information to them as a group and tailoring support and advice to their individual needs, as well as one providing post-relapse support, peer-to-peer communication and personal support from experts.

Indexed as

Smoking PreventionComputer-Assisted InstructionFemaleHealth PromotionHealth Services Needs and DemandHumansInfantInternetInterviews as TopicMaternal BehaviorPatient Education as TopicPeer GroupPilot ProjectsPregnancyPregnancy ComplicationsPrenatal Care

Identifiers

PMID25312556
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OpenAlexW2046069676

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