Prenatal and Postpartum Women and Tobacco

Health Canada
2001

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Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Background
• Key Lessons:
  1. Pregnant women are motivated - quitting is still difficult
  2. Most women who quit smoking during pregnancy relapse after the baby is born
  3. A variety of ways of increasing program effectiveness has been implemented
  4. Service providers feel most effective with adequate training and support
  5. Family approaches to creating smoke free environments for infants and children are needed
• TDRS Document Codes

Acknowledgements

Health Canada wishes to acknowledge Dr. Nancy Edwards, Community Health Research Unit, University of Ottawa, for researching the original synthesis document; Mona Wynn, Cambium Consulting, for writing this summary; and DesignCo for graphic design and layout.

Aussi disponible en français sous le titre « Le tabagisme chez les femmes pendant les périodes prénatale et postnatale ».