New research highlights that financial incentives significantly boost smoking cessation rates, including among pregnant ...

It is common knowledge that smoking is linked to numerous poor health outcomes. Now, researchers find that this fact extends even before birth. Mariona Bustamante, a molecular epidemiologist at ...

No, it isn’t safe to use cannabis during pregnancy. Cannabis (otherwise known as weed, marijuana and hash) can cross the ...

During pregnancy, smoking involves a higher risk both for ... exposed and 29 nicotine-unexposed full-term newborn infants with no medical problems from comparable social class backgrounds.

Stopping smoking in pregnancy is important for the health of the woman or pregnant person and their baby. Identifying women and pregnant people, and their partners, who smoke at routine antenatal ...

Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage ... Studies varied in the total amounts of rewards that were paid and there was no noticeable difference between trials paying smaller ...

These incentives made even more of an impression on pregnant smokers, who were more than twice as likely to quit long-term if provided rewards, the review says. “Smoking is the leading ...

A University of Alberta research team is sending out a vehement warning that vaping is not a safe alternative to smoking ...

Women who were pregnant and received rewards were much more likely to stop smoking than those in the ... of rewards that were paid and there was no noticeable difference between trials paying ...