Our vision is to provide all pregnant smokers (and new mothers) with the help they want and the support they need to quit smoking and stay tobacco-free. We will achieve this by translating science-based interventions into effective programs and policies. This will entail:
Ensuring that systems are in place to screen all pregnant woman for tobacco use, and that all pregnant and postpartum smokers receive best-practice cessation counseling by 2005.
- Effectively using the media to promote the benefits of smoking cessation for pregnant smokers, and to show their partners, families, friends, and neighbors how to assist them in their quit attempts.
- Making smoking cessation services and support widely available in communities and workplaces to encourage pregnant women to quit and support them in their efforts to do so.
- Promoting policies that support smoke-free environments and improved access to cessation treatments, and encouraging economic support for such policies.
- Promoting research and evaluation efforts to develop more effective cessation interventions.
Our goals for the National Partnership are:
- To ensure that all pregnant women in the United States will be screened for tobacco use, and that all pregnant and postpartum smokers will receive best-practice cessation counseling as part of their usual care by 2005.
- To reduce the prevalence of smoking during pregnancy to two percent or less by 2010, in accordance with the Healthy People 2010 goal.