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Smoking and quit attempts during pregnancy and postpartum: a longitudinal UK cohort (2017)
Journal Article
Cooper, S., Orton, S., Leonardi-Bee, J., Brotherton, E., Vanderbloemen, L., Bowker, K., …Coleman, T. (2017). Smoking and quit attempts during pregnancy and postpartum: a longitudinal UK cohort. BMJ Open, 7(11), Article e018746. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018746

Objectives Pregnancy motivates women to try stopping smoking, but little is known about timing of their quit attempts and how quitting intentions change during pregnancy and postpartum. Using longitudinal data, this study aimed to document women’s sm... Read More about Smoking and quit attempts during pregnancy and postpartum: a longitudinal UK cohort.

Factors associated with the effectiveness and reach of NHS Stop Smoking Services for pregnant women in England (2017)
Journal Article
Vaz, L. R., Coleman, T., Fahy, S., Cooper, S., Bauld, L., & Szatkowski, L. (2017). Factors associated with the effectiveness and reach of NHS Stop Smoking Services for pregnant women in England. BMC Health Services Research, 17, Article 545. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2502-y

Background The UK National Health Service provides Stop Smoking Services for pregnant women (SSSP) but there is a lack of evidence concerning how these are best organised. This study investigates influences on services’ effectiveness and also on t... Read More about Factors associated with the effectiveness and reach of NHS Stop Smoking Services for pregnant women in England.

Large multi-centre pilot randomized controlled trial testing a low-cost, tailored, self-help smoking cessation text message intervention for pregnant smokers (MiQuit): randomized controlled trial of MiQuit (2017)
Journal Article
Naughton, F., Cooper, S., Foster, K., Leonardi-Bee, J., Emery, J., Sutton, S., …Coleman, T. (2017). Large multi-centre pilot randomized controlled trial testing a low-cost, tailored, self-help smoking cessation text message intervention for pregnant smokers (MiQuit): randomized controlled trial of MiQuit. Addiction, 112(7), 1238-1249. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13802

Aims: To estimate the effectiveness of pregnancy smoking cessation support delivered by short message service (SMS) text message and key parameters needed to plan a definitive trial. Design: Multi‐centre, parallel‐group, single‐blinded, individual r... Read More about Large multi-centre pilot randomized controlled trial testing a low-cost, tailored, self-help smoking cessation text message intervention for pregnant smokers (MiQuit): randomized controlled trial of MiQuit.

Smoking cessation support by text message during pregnancy: a qualitative study of views and experiences of the MiQuit intervention (2017)
Journal Article
Sloan, M., Hopewell, S., Coleman, T., Cooper, S., & Naughton, F. (2017). Smoking cessation support by text message during pregnancy: a qualitative study of views and experiences of the MiQuit intervention. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 19(5), https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntw241

Introduction: SMS text messaging is increasingly used for delivering smoking cessation support and pilot studies suggest this may also be useful in pregnancy. This study explores the views of women who received a tailored text messaging cessation int... Read More about Smoking cessation support by text message during pregnancy: a qualitative study of views and experiences of the MiQuit intervention.

Lessons learned from the London Exercise and Pregnant (LEAP) Smokers randomised controlled trial process evaluation: implications for the design of physical activity for smoking cessation interventions during pregnancy (2017)
Journal Article
Giatras, N., Wanninkhof, E., Leontowitsch, M., Lewis, B., Taylor, A., Cooper, S., & Ussher, M. (2017). Lessons learned from the London Exercise and Pregnant (LEAP) Smokers randomised controlled trial process evaluation: implications for the design of physical activity for smoking cessation interventions during pregnancy. BMC Public Health, 17, Article 85. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4013-5

Background: The challenges of delivering interventions for pregnant smokers have been poorly documented. Also, the process of promoting a physical activity intervention for pregnant smokers has not been previously recorded. This study describes the e... Read More about Lessons learned from the London Exercise and Pregnant (LEAP) Smokers randomised controlled trial process evaluation: implications for the design of physical activity for smoking cessation interventions during pregnancy.