title: Cigarette smoking in pregnancy.
abstract: 1. One in three women still continue to smoke in pregnancy. 2. The government target of reducing the numbers of pregnant women who smoke by they year 2000 is at least a third. 3. Midwives are ideally placed to offer support to women who smoke in the antenatal period. 4. A multidisciplinary approach has been shown to be effective, backed up by leaflets, a helpline or contact number, and one to one counselling. 5. Midwives need appropriate skills and expertise to enable them to give effective smoking cessation advice.
authors.affiliation: Wycombe General Hospital.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tyley
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009721:Nurse Midwives; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention