Smoking and Women's Health

Smoking and women's health: tips on why and how to quit.

Caught in a dilemma: why do non-smoking women in China support the smoking behaviors of men in their families?

Intimate relationships influence family members' health practices. Although cigarette smoking in China is predominantly a male behavior, (non-smoking) women's roles should be taken into account for the development of home-smoking interventions. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with 22 families in a rural area of China, this article explores non-smoking women's attitudes towards male smoking. ...

Pregnancy planning status and health behaviors among nonpregnant women in a California managed health care organization.

CONTEXT Women's behaviors before and during pregnancy can affect their infants' health. Particularly because many births in the United States are unintended, it is important to understand women's health behaviors and pregnancy planning status before they become pregnant. METHODS A telephone survey of nonpregnant women of childbearing age who belonged to a Southern California managed care plan...

Socioeconomic lifecourse influences on women's smoking status in early adulthood.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To incorporate women's domestic trajectories and circumstances into analyses of the socioeconomic influences on women's smoking status (current and former smoking) in early adulthood. DESIGN Cross sectional survey. SETTING Southampton, UK. PARTICIPANTS 8437 women aged 25-34 recruited from 1998-2002 via patient lists of general practices. MAIN RESULTS Domestic lifecourse ...

An intervention to support postpartum women to quit smoking or remain smoke-free.

Effectiveness studies among pregnant and postpartum women indicate that pregnancy and the postpartum period provide a window of opportunity to promote smoking cessation and smoke-free families. Yet, there is a lack of information about interventions that are portable to routine care. The goal of this article is to describe the structure, basic strategies, and the application of a smoking cessat...

Young Australian women’s accounts of smoking and quitting: a qualitative study using visual methods

BACKGROUND Although the overall rate of smoking in Australia continues to decline, the rate of decline has begun to slow. Rates of smoking among young women in Australia have been a particular concern, which has led to the development of targeted public health campaigns. Poststructuralist theory has successfully been used in research to explore the way in which young women experience smoking. H...