Re-starting smoking in the postpartum period after receiving a smoking cessation intervention: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

In pregnant smoking cessation trial participants, to estimate (1) among women abstinent at the end of pregnancy, the proportion who re-start smoking at time-points afterwards (primary analysis) and (2) among all trial participants, the proportion smoking at the end of pregnancy and at selected time-points during the postpartum period (secondary analysis).

Methods

Trials identified from two Cochrane reviews plus searches of Medline and EMBASE. Twenty-seven trials were included. The included trials were randomized or quasi-randomized trials of within-pregnancy cessation interventions given to smokers who reported abstinence both at end of pregnancy and at one or more defined time-points after birth. Outcomes were validated biochemically and self-reported continuous abstin

SUBMITTER: Jones M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6680353 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature