Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care

Summary Table of Recommendations

Smoking and Pregnancy

Prepared by Susan E. Moner, MD, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, Mass.

These recommendations were finalized by the Task Force in June 1993


 
 
 
MANEUVER EFFECTIVENESS LEVEL OF EVIDENCE <REF> RECOMMENDATION
Smoking cessation intervention including advice, multiple component programs and/or behavioural strategies. Smoking cessation interventions improve quit rates. 
 
 

 

 Randomized controlled trials <14,17-20> and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials <9,24> (I)  Good evidence to include smoking cessation interventions in the periodic health examination of pregnant women who smoke. (A)
Smoking cessation decreases incidence of low birth weight infants. Randomized controlled trials <18,19> (I)
Smoking cessation interventions are cost effective. Randomized controlled trials <19,23> (I)
Smoking cessation improves cognitive ability in children of mothers who quit smoking during gestation. Cohort studies <26-33> (II-2)

 

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