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Perception of Smoking‐Related Health Consequences among Pregnant and Non‐Pregnant Women
Author(s) -
Ortendahl Monica,
Näsman Per
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1080/10550490701643088
Subject(s) - pregnancy , quit smoking , medicine , perception , cigarette smoking , smoke , environmental health , demography , smoking cessation , psychology , genetics , physics , pathology , neuroscience , sociology , meteorology , biology
The objective was to examine the perception of smoking‐related health consequences and its relationship to pregnancy and intent to quit. Over a two‐week period, pregnant and non‐pregnant women, intending and not intending to quit smoking, rated the probability for smoking‐related health consequences to occur, given continuing to smoke and quitting smoking. Pregnant women who did not intend to quit smoking exhibited the lowest estimated probability for the smoking‐related health consequences to occur if they continued smoking. For all women, there was a statistically significant estimated effect of quitting smoking. Renewed attention needs to be given to perceptions of health risks of smoking, especially among pregnant women.