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

We combined search terms of exposure (smoking during pregnancy) with the outcome of the study (stillbirth). The MeSH terms used included combinations of the terms: stillbirth, maternal smoking ...

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.

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

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 ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...