The interaction of sociodemographic risk factors and measures of nicotine dependence in predicting maternal smoking during pregnancy.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Understanding differences in nicotine dependence assessments' ability to predict smoking cessation is complicated by variation in quit attempt contexts. Pregnancy reduces this variation, as each pregnant smoker receives the same strong cessation incentive. Cigarette smoking during pregnancy (SDP) provides a powerful paradigm for analyzing the interplay between nicotine dependence measures and sociodemographics in predicting cessation failure. METHODS:Data from a female twin cohort (median birth year 1980), assessed in teens and early twenties, were merged with birth records to identify those with smoking history who experienced childbirth (N = 1657 births, N = 763 mothers). Logistic regression predicting SDP, as a function of birth record sociodemographic variables, generated a

SUBMITTER: Houston-Ludlam AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6467711 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature