Smoking

Research from University of Texas Provides New Insights into Smoking

Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 29th, 2011

2011 DEC 29 -- "Motivation plays an important role in a variety of behaviors, including smoking cessation, and is integral to theory and treatment of smoking. For many women, pregnancy offers a motivational shift that helps them stop smoking and maintain abstinence during pregnancy," scientists in Austin, Texas report.

"However, women's motivation to maintain smoking abstinence postpartum is not well-understood and may play a role in high postpartum relapse rates. The current study utilized multiple measures of prepartum motivation to maintain smoking abstinence to predict postpartum smoking abstinence. As part of a randomized clinical trial on postpartum...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2011-12-29)

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