Smoke-Free Families is a national program supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation working to discover the best ways to help pregnant smokers quit, and spread the word about effective, evidence-based treatments.
Some 20 percent of low birth weight births, eight percent of pre-term deliveries, and five percent of all perinatal deaths are linked to smoking during pregnancy, making smoking the most important modifiable cause of poor pregnancy outcome. Since its founding in 1994, Smoke-Free Families has been working to find innovative, evidence based treatments for pregnant smokers. [more]
The Smoke-Free Families National Program Office has sponsored a Supplement to the April 2004 Issue of Nicotine & Tobacco Research featuring the latest in research on pregnancy & smoking. [more]
All states now have quitline services for people who use tobacco, but many do not include information that is specific for both pregnant and post-partum callers and their family members. Using the resources from our partnership, we assembled materials that can be integrated into your already existing quitline service. The toolkit is divided into four sections:
The Rationale for Pregnancy and Post-partum Quitline Services
The Best Practice Protocol and Operations Issues
Promoting Pregnancy and Post-partum Services in Your State
Materials and Resources
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NEW and available for download: Smoking Cessation for Pregnancy and Beyond: Learn Proven Strategies to Help Your Patients Quit. Online mini-fellowship developed by the Interactive Media Laboratory at Dartmouth University in collaboration with Smoke-Free Families and[more]