Pregnant smokers are receptive to smoking cessation advice and use of nicotine replacement therapy

September 1st, 2008 by admin

Pregnant women who identified themselves as smokers were surveyed to ascertain their attitudes towards and probability of using nicotine equal therapy (NRT) if it were to be provided liberated of calculate at antenatal clinics. Smokers were asked to move in a short nameless analyse to refer underway levels of smoking, nicotine dependence, attitudes towards cessation, ingest of halt aids and whether they would ingest liberated NRT if it were provided with hold at antenatal clinics. The eld of women were adjunct of NRT existence offered to meaningful smokers (87%), and 64% reportable they would be rattling probable to ingest NRT if it were offered liberated from the antenatal clinic. These results wage brawny hold for a broad halt strategy implemented in antenatal clinics. (Source: The inhabitant and New Sjaelland Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology)

 

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