Cathy Gebauer|Chung-Ying Kwo|Elaine F. Haynes|Mary Ellen Wewers
A Nurse-Managed Smoking Cessation Intervention During Pregnancy
Ohio State University Hospital|The Ohio State University|Ohio State University Hospital|The Ohio State University|The Ohio State University|The Ohio State University
evaluate effectiveness nursemanaged smoking cessation intervention outpatient setting among pregnant women smokedprospective control group participants cessation rates assessed 612 weeks clinic contact compared cessation rates subsequent intervention participants 612 weeks receiving nursemanaged smoking cessation interventionone hundred seventyeight women daily smokers first visit confirmation pregnancy teaching hospital prenatal clinicfifteenminute individualized intervention delivered advancedpractice nurse combined telephone contact advancedpractice nurse 710 days clinic visitselfreport smoking confirmed saliva cotinineintervention group participants selfreported abstinence rate 19 compared 0 among control group participants cotininevalidated abstinence rate intervention group 155 compared 0 control group african americans likely quit compared white participants received interventiona nursemanaged intervention combined telephone contact may effective strategy intervening pregnant smokers especially african americans