Title:

Cognitive-Behavioral Counseling and Financial Incentives Help Pregnant Women Quit Smoking
URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13070732
Summary:

Pregnant women respond well to cognitive-behavioral counseling and financial incentives for quitting smoking, which improve pregnancy outcomes like birth weight.

Highlights: This systematic review and meta-analysis ended up focusing on twenty-one Randomized Controlled Trials involving 8,149 pregnant smokers.
  • The pregnant women who received cognitive-behavioral counseling and financial incentives recognized a significant rise in their smoking abstinence rate (RR: 1.14, 95% CI: 1.02-1.28, p = 0.03 and RR: 2.37, 95% CI: 1.92-2.93, p < 0.001)
  • There was no significant difference observed among other behavioral approaches or pharmaceutical therapy.
  • Fetuses born to women in the intervention group had significantly larger birth weights (MD = 94.73, 95% CI = (41.18-58.27), p < 0.001.

Published in March 2025
Topics: Health Promotion: Tobacco
Resource Type: strategies and interventions
Publisher: MDPI | Healthcare
Date Last Updated: 2025-10-18 10:49

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