Digitalizing Specialist Smoking Cessation Support in Pregnancy: Views of Pregnant Smokers.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Unsupported attempts to quit smoking during pregnancy have a low success rate. Chances of quitting successfully are higher with an interpersonal treatment program but there is low uptake of this in the United Kingdom. Delivering a pregnancy-specific treatment program digitally may provide an alternative treatment route. This study explored pregnant smokers' perceptions of barriers and facilitators to using digital cessation support, along with identifying modes of delivery and engagement enhancers.

Aims and methods

Semi-structured interviews were carried out with an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of 25 participants with recent experience of attempting to quit smoking in pregnancy, aged 20-40, from the United Kingdom. An inductive thematic analys

SUBMITTER: Belderson P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11750734 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature