1985
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.75.12.1389
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The effectiveness of smoking cessation methods for smokers in public health maternity clinics: a randomized trial.

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 … Show more

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“…No entanto, estudos têm demonstrado não apenas ser freqüente a interrupção espontânea do hábito no início da gestação como também as melhorias das condições fetais decorrentes desta interrupção 1,10,13,16 . Os grupos maternos de maior risco, entretanto, precisam ser melhor conhecidos para que medidas preventivas efetivas possam ser instituídas.…”
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“…No entanto, estudos têm demonstrado não apenas ser freqüente a interrupção espontânea do hábito no início da gestação como também as melhorias das condições fetais decorrentes desta interrupção 1,10,13,16 . Os grupos maternos de maior risco, entretanto, precisam ser melhor conhecidos para que medidas preventivas efetivas possam ser instituídas.…”
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“…4 For women who do quit during pregnancy and who received a planned intervention, between 6.2% and 37.2% remained smoke-free. The range of relapse rates is broad because of the varying success of the cessation intervention strategy.…”
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“…Several studies have established the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions in primary health care services in general [8][9][10] and in public health clinics. [11][12][13][14][15][16] Current recommendations are that minimal smoking cessation interventions be incorporated in routine primary health care and that these interventions include, as a minimum, provider advice to quit smoking and written material or other help for quitting. [17][18][19] Most health professionals are aware and approve of these recommendations and report applying them to many of their patients.…”
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