A new study revealed that 43 percent of women who stopped their habit of smoking cigarettes while they were pregnant returned to smoking again just after six months of delivering their baby. This study was released on March 15 and was published via the journal Addiction.
Lots of people know the many dangers that smoking could give to a person's health, especially to women during their pregnancy. This is why they opt to try and quit smoking for that time being in order to protect their baby's health.
In a news report published by Time Magazine, they said that most women who find out that they are pregnant would make all the effort to not touch a single cigarette. However, they are not sure if they would actually stick to that habit of no longer smoking once their child finally comes out.
Smoking during pregnancy and after delivery is associated with a greater risk of #asthma-like symptoms.
— No More Asthma (@NoMoreAsthma) March 13, 2016
Researchers sampled 27 experiments that would help women stop smoking during pregnancy. The scientists involved in this study observed if those women remained to no longer be smokers even after pregnancy. The result showed that only 13 percent of them were able to really stay committed and remained to be non-smokers.
A whopping 87 percent either struggled to quit smoking or didn't really even make an effort to stop smoking. But out of the 13 percent who quit smoking, 43 percent of them went back to the same habit just after six months of giving birth.
This is not the first time this study was brought up. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) previously released data stating that 10 percent of smokers who are women in their pregnancy couldn't really quit it, as they would even start smoking again in the final three months of them being pregnant.
"Most pregnant smokers do not achieve abstinence from smoking while they are pregnant," said the study authors. "And among those that do, most will re-start smoking within 6 months of childbirth."
