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Smoking cessation during pregnancy: the influence of partners, family and friends on quitters and non‐quitters
Author(s) -
Koshy P.,
Mackenzie M.,
Tappin D.,
Bauld L.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
health and social care in the community
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.984
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1365-2524
pISSN - 0966-0410
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2010.00926.x
Subject(s) - smoking cessation , praise , intervention (counseling) , psychology , pregnancy , qualitative research , medicine , family medicine , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , social science , pathology , sociology , biology , genetics
This research compared pregnant quitters’ and non‐quitters’ accounts of how partners, family and friends influenced their smoking cessation attempts. Qualitative secondary data analysis was carried out on a purposive sample of motivational interview transcripts undertaken by research midwives with pregnant women as part of SmokeChange, a smoking cessation intervention. Interviews with all quitters in the intervention group ( n = 12) were analysed comparatively with interviews from a matched sample of non‐quitters ( n = 12).The discourses of both revealed similarity in how their partners, family and friends influenced their cessation efforts: salient others were simultaneously perceived by both groups of women as providing drivers and barriers to quit attempts; close associates who smoked were often perceived to be as supportive as those who did not. However, women who quit smoking during pregnancy talked more about receiving active praise/encouragement than those who did not. While close associates play an important role in women’s attempts to stop smoking during pregnancy, the support they provide varies; further research is needed to develop a better understanding of how key relationships help or hinder cessation during pregnancy.