New research highlights that financial incentives significantly boost smoking cessation rates, including among pregnant ...

Smoking patterns during preconception, pregnancy and the postpartum period vary based on maternal age, race and ethnicity, ...

Cigarette smoking reduces uterine receptiveness. Smokers have a reduced pregnancy rate in oocyte donation cycles. Curiously, multiple pregnancy rates are also significantly increased in these women.

No, it isn’t safe to use cannabis during pregnancy. Cannabis (otherwise known as weed, marijuana and hash) can cross the ...

Stopping smoking in pregnancy is important for the health of the woman or pregnant person and their baby. Identifying women and pregnant people, and their partners, who smoke at routine antenatal ...

Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage and stillbirth and raises the odds of the baby being born underweight. Research led by the University of East Anglia analysed 48 studies ...

“We know that smoking while pregnant can be really harmful to both the parent and the fetus,” Hartmann-Boyce says. “And people are more cautious in pregnancy about using a lot of the ...

These incentives made even more of an impression on pregnant smokers, who were more than twice as likely to quit long-term if provided rewards, the review says. “Smoking is the leading ...

The new research, led by the University of East Anglia, also explored whether incentives were effective in helping pregnant women to give up smoking. While previous research found rewards played a ...

For every 100 pregnant persons who received financial incentives, 13 were likely to successfully quit smoking at six months or longer, compared to six in 100 who did not receive financial incentives.

A University of Alberta research team is sending out a vehement warning that vaping is not a safe alternative to smoking ...

These incentives made even more of an impression on pregnant smokers, who were more than twice as likely to quit long-term if provided rewards, the review says. “Smoking is the leading preventable ...