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ArticleWomen's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health

Factors Associated With Quitting Smoking During Pregnancy Among Women Veterans.

Aimee Kroll-Desrosiers, Cathryn Glanton Holzhauer, Lindsey Russo, Eric C DeRycke, Rebecca L Kinney, Lori A Bastian, Kristin M Mattocks

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Article in Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Predictors of Quit Attempts and Successful Smoking Abstinence in Pregnancy: An Exploratory Analysis of a Pooled Clinical Trial Dataset.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
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  3. Review
  4. Quitting Smoking before and after Pregnancy: Study Methods and Baseline Data from a Prospective Cohort Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Aimee Kroll-DesrosiersResearch and Development, VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System, Leeds, Massachusetts; Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts; Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. Electronic address: aimee.kroll-desrosiers@va.gov.
Cathryn Glanton HolzhauerResearch and Development, VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System, Leeds, Massachusetts; Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Lindsey RussoDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Eric C DeRyckePain Research, Informatics, Multimorbidities, and Education (PRIME) Center, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut.
Rebecca L KinneyResearch and Development, VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System, Leeds, Massachusetts.
Lori A BastianPain Research, Informatics, Multimorbidities, and Education (PRIME) Center, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut; Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Kristin M MattocksResearch and Development, VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System, Leeds, Massachusetts; Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts; Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · USUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst · USVA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System · USVA Connecticut Healthcare System · USYale University · US

Funding

Understanding and targeting stress reactivity in women Veterans with alcohol misuseIK2CX001951 · VA · NORTHAMPTON VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI HOLZHAUER, CATHRYN GLANTON · 2020 to 2024
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CSRD VA IK2 CX001951
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionLittle is known about the rates of smoking among pregnant veterans. Our objective was to examine rates of smoking during pregnancy and factors associated with quitting smoking during pregnancy.

methodsWe used data from a cohort study of pregnant veterans from 15 Veterans Health Administration facilities nationwide. Veterans who reported smoking during pregnancy were included in this analysis. Poisson regression models were used to estimate the relative risk (RR) of quitting smoking during pregnancy.

resultsOverall, 133 veterans reported smoking during pregnancy. Among this group of women who smoked, the average age was 31.6 years, 20% were Black, and 14% were Hispanic/Latino. More than one-half of women (65%) who reported smoking at the start of pregnancy quit smoking during pregnancy. Multivariable models, adjusted for history of deployment and age, indicated that prenatal care initiation at 12 or fewer weeks compared with more than 13 weeks (relative risk [RR], 2.06; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.18-3.58), living without household smokers compared with any household smokers (RR, 1.58; 95% CI, 1.14-2.17), and first pregnancy (RR, 1.51; 95% CI, 1.17-1.95) were significant predictors of quitting versus persistent smoking during pregnancy.

conclusionsWomen veterans who quit smoking may be different than those who continue to smoke during pregnancy. Establishing prenatal care early in pregnancy, which likely includes counseling about smoking cessation, seems to be an important factor in quitting. Those for whom it is not a first pregnancy and who live with other smokers may especially benefit from such counseling.

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Smoking CessationVeteransAdultCohort StudiesFemaleHumansInfantPregnancyPrenatal CareSmoking

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PMID34049763
PMCPMC11409577
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