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[Health Professionals' Interventions for promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy: a review of the evidence]. 2005

A Stoebner-Delbarre, and F Letourmy

Epidaure, Département de Prévention C.R.L.C. Val d'Aurelle Parc Euromédecine, rue des Apothicaires, 34298 Montpellier Cedex 05. a.stoebner@valdorel.fnclcc.fr

Active and passive exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy is the most serious and preventable cause of adverse maternal, fetal, and infant outcomes in France. The clinical and economic benefits of cessation have been documented. The objective of this article is to review the evidence base addressing smoking cessation in pregnant women. The article describes how best to assist the pregnant smoker in clinical practice or hospital to quit during pregnancy. The following low intensity interventions designed to be integrated into routine prenatal care are detailed: expired air CO measures, practice of the evidence-based 5 A's smoking cessation intervention for pregnant women, use of pregnant woman's self-help guide to quit smoking, relapse prevention, health professionals' training, participation to community program.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D011247	Pregnancy	The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.	Gestation,Pregnancies
D012008	Recurrence	The return of a sign, symptom, or disease after a remission.	Recrudescence,Relapse,Recrudescences,Recurrences,Relapses
D005260	Female		Females
D006282	Health Personnel	Men and women working in the provision of health services, whether as individual practitioners or employees of health institutions and programs, whether or not professionally trained, and whether or not subject to public regulation. (From A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)	Health Care Professionals,Health Care Providers,Healthcare Providers,Healthcare Workers,Health Care Professional,Health Care Provider,Healthcare Provider,Healthcare Worker,Personnel, Health,Professional, Health Care,Provider, Health Care,Provider, Healthcare
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000074606	Smoking Prevention	Efforts directed at preventing SMOKING of TOBACCO and non-tobacco products.	Anti-Smoking Campaign,Anti-Smoking Education,Anti Smoking Campaign,Anti Smoking Education,Anti-Smoking Campaigns,Anti-Smoking Educations,Campaign, Anti-Smoking,Campaigns, Anti-Smoking,Education, Anti-Smoking,Prevention, Smoking,Preventions, Smoking,Smoking Preventions
D016540	Smoking Cessation	Discontinuing the habit of SMOKING.	Giving Up Smoking,Quitting Smoking,Stopping Smoking,Cessation, Smoking,Smoking Cessations,Smoking, Giving Up,Smoking, Quitting,Smoking, Stopping,Smokings, Giving Up,Up Smoking, Giving