Newly-defined factors may prevent postpartum smoking relapse

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Tue, 08/26/2008 - 23:00

(University of North Carolina School of Medicine) Although many women quit smoking during pregnancy to protect their unborn children from the effects of cigarettes, half resume the habit within a few months of giving birth.

By shedding light on the factors that enable the other half to put down that cigarette for good, a study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill could lead to programs designed to help women quit and stay quit.

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