Trial reportAmerican journal of public health1985
The effectiveness of smoking cessation methods for smokers in public health maternity clinics: a randomized trial.
Trial report in American journal of public health, 1985. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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59 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 279 citations in OpenAlex.
- Smoking cessation in pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of vulnerability approaches and expectant father involvement.Public health reviews · 2026Pooled 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
- Physician advice for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Interventions for promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2009Pooled it
- Recommended cessation counselling for pregnant women who smoke: a review of the evidence.Tobacco control · 2000Pooled it
- Motivational Interviewing to Encourage Quit Attempts Among Smokers Not Ready to Quit: A Trial-Based Economic Analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020Trial
- Examining two different schedules of financial incentives for smoking cessation among pregnant women.Preventive medicine · 2014Trial
- Pilot randomized controlled trial of an internet-based smoking cessation intervention for pregnant smokers ('MumsQuit').Drug and alcohol dependence · 2014Trial
- Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation and Reduction in Pregnancy Treatment (SCRIPT) methods in Medicaid-supported prenatal care: Trial III.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2011Trial
- Feasibility of a tobacco cessation intervention for pregnant Alaska Native women.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2010Trial
- Baby BEEP: A randomized controlled trial of nurses' individualized social support for poor rural pregnant smokers.Maternal and child health journal · 2009Trial
- An intervention to improve postpartum outcomes in African-American mothers: a randomized controlled trial.Obstetrics and gynecology · 2008Trial
- The design, implementation and acceptability of an integrated intervention to address multiple behavioral and psychosocial risk factors among pregnant African American women.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2008Trial
- Predictors of smoking cessation in pregnancy and maintenance postpartum in low-income women.Maternal and child health journal · 2005Trial
- Self help smoking cessation in pregnancy: cluster randomised controlled trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002Trial
- Prevention of relapse in women who quit smoking during pregnancy.American journal of public health · 1999Trial
- A smoking cessation program at a public antenatal clinic.American journal of public health · 1997Trial
- Integrating smoking cessation into routine public prenatal care: the Smoking Cessation in Pregnancy project.American journal of public health · 1995Trial
- Health education for pregnant smokers: its behavioral impact and cost benefit.American journal of public health · 1993Trial
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Abstract
Little insight is available in the literature on how best to assist the pregnant smoker in public health maternity clinics to quit during pregnancy. A randomized pretest/posttest experiment was used to evaluate the effectiveness of two different self-help cessation methods. Three hundred and nine pregnant women from three public health maternity clinics were assigned randomly to one of three groups with one-third assigned to each: a control group; a group receiving the American Lung Association's Freedom From Smoking Manual; and those receiving A Pregnant Woman's Self-Help Guide to Quit Smoking. Using a saliva thiocyanate (SCN) and behavioral report at mid-pregnancy and end of pregnancy to confirm cessation or reduction, 2 per cent in the control group quit and 7 per cent reduced their SCN levels substantially. Of the women assigned to the ALA method, 6 per cent quit and 14 per cent reduced their SCN levels substantially. Of the women who used the Guide, 14 per cent quit and 17 per cent reduced their SCN levels substantially. Results of this trial indicate that health education methods tailored to the pregnant smoker are more effective in changing smoking behavior than the standard clinic information and advice to quit and/or the use of smoking cessation methods not tailored to the needs of the pregnant smoker.
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