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Cigarette Use among Pregnant Women and Recent Mothers

 
The NSDUH Report:  Cigarette Use among Pregnant Women and Recent Mothers
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  • Combined data from SAMHSA's 2002 to 2005 National Surveys of Drug Use and Health were examined to compare rates of past month cigarette use among women aged 15 to 44 by pregnancy status and demographic characteristics. Regardless of pregnancy status, white women were more likely to smoke cigarettes in the past month of the survey than Black or Hispanic women.
  • Pregnant women (17.3%) and recent mothers (23.8%) were less likely to be current smokers (smoked in past month) than nonpregnant women who were not recent mothers (30.6%).
  • Pregnant women who were current cigarette smokers were more likely to report smoking cigarettes during their first trimester (22.9%) than second trimester (14.3%) or third trimester of pregnancy (15.3%).
  • Younger pregnant women were more likely than their oldest counterparts to smoke cigarettes during their pregnancy: 24.3% of pregnant women aged 15-17 and 27.1% of pregnant women aged 18-25 compared with 10.6% of pregnant women aged 26-44 smoked cigarettes during their pregnancy in the past month of the survey.

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This Short Report, The NSDUH Report:  Cigarette Use among Pregnant Women and Recent Mothers, is based on SAMHSA's  National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older.   SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health also provides estimates for drug use by State.

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