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Expecting To Quit: A Best-Practices Review Of Smoking Cessation Interventions For Pregnant And Postpartum Girls And Women, Lorraine Greaves, Nancy Poole, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Natalie Hemsing, Annie Qu, Lauren Bialystok, Renée O’Leary Mar 2011

Expecting To Quit: A Best-Practices Review Of Smoking Cessation Interventions For Pregnant And Postpartum Girls And Women, Lorraine Greaves, Nancy Poole, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Natalie Hemsing, Annie Qu, Lauren Bialystok, Renée O’Leary

Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli

This report examines interventions designed to reduce or eliminate smoking during pregnancy. It considers these interventions using a “better practices” methodology designed by Moyer, Cameron, Garcia, and Maule (2002, p. 124) for intervention studies published prior to 2003, and a systematic review methodology from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) (2006) in the UK for those studies published after 2003. We contextualize the results of these analyses in the wider literature on women’s health, women-centred care, and women’s tobacco use to better interpret them. These results build on those in the first edition of Expecting to Quit …


Young Women’S Responses To Smoking And Breast Cancer Risk Information, Joan L. Bottorff, Stephanie Barclay Mckeown, Joanne Carey, Rebecca Haines, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Kenneth C. Johnson, Julie Easley, Roberta Ferrence, Lynne Baillie, Erin Ptolemy Aug 2010

Young Women’S Responses To Smoking And Breast Cancer Risk Information, Joan L. Bottorff, Stephanie Barclay Mckeown, Joanne Carey, Rebecca Haines, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Kenneth C. Johnson, Julie Easley, Roberta Ferrence, Lynne Baillie, Erin Ptolemy

Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli

Current evidence confirms that young women who smoke or who have regular long-term exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) have an increased risk of developing premenopausal breast cancer. The aim of this research was to examine the responses of young women to health information about the links between active smoking and SHS exposure and breast cancer and obtain their advice about messaging approaches. Data were collected in focus groups with 46 women, divided in three age cohorts: 15–17, 18–19 and 20–24 and organized according to smoking status (smoking, non-smoking and mixed smoking status groups). The discussion questions were preceded by information …


Smoking During Pregnancy More Common Among Girls And Young Women Under 35, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli Jan 2008

Smoking During Pregnancy More Common Among Girls And Young Women Under 35, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli

Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli

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