Research shows that even three minutes of smoking cessation counselling by a physician doubles the likelihood that a pregnant char will relinquish smoking, Tracy Orleans, aged scientist at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, said. Robert Wood Johnson implements a program in which counselors give pregnant women who do not roll of tobacco coupons for infant supplies, Orleans aforesaid. The program tests women's blood for nicotine byproducts. "It breaks quitting up into smaller segments of time," Orleans said, adding, "So women think, 'I just have to have through the next month,' or 'If I can make it just 10 more than days until I get my following checkup, I can stimulate this $20 gift certificate.' It helps you rally the willpower you need."
However, half of pregnant smokers who quit begin smoke again within six months of vaginal birth, according to CDC. Up to 80% of women who take leave during pregnancy are smoke again within one year, the American Legacy Foundation reports. People often return to smoke during multiplication of stress, and women who are experiencing postnatal depression ar more potential to take up smoking, according to Alex Parks of the American Legacy Foundation. The American Cancer Society reports that about half of women who smoke during pregnancy are living with a mood disorder. Because mothers often go out pediatricians more than their own physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics' Smoke-Free Home Program trains pediatricians on counseling parents to quit smoking. About 75% of women smokers suppose they want to quit, and about half say they receive tried in the last year, according to the American Cancer Society (Szabo, USA Today, 7/28).
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