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Staying Healthy
Smoking in Pregnancy
Pregnancy, the period prior to it and afterwards,
provides opportunities to help pregnant smokers stop smoking. Not only
are many women smokers motivated to stop smoking at this time, they
experience higher levels of family support to stop smoking and have
greater contact with the healthcare system.
Smoking in pregnancy prevalence for North Yorkshire is 17.8%. This is above the England (national) prevalence of 16.6%.
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Women who smoke are less likely to carry their babies to full term and there is a 26% increased risk that they will miscarry or experience a still birth. Babies of smoking mothers on average weigh 200g lighter at birth.
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Infants of parents who smoke are more likely to be admitted to hospital for bronchitis and pneumonia in the first year of life.
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Estimates have placed the costs of a complicated delivery by a smoker at 66% higher than that of a non-smoker.
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Smoking accounts for one half the difference in life expectancy between social classes 1 and 5. Thus, the burden of smoking falls most heavily on the least advantaged in our region.
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The routine and manual group is the only group where prevalence of smoking in pregnancy has increased over the last 5 years.
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In North Yorkshire the teenage conception rate is 27.1, in the City of York this is 42.2 (2005 ONS data). Younger mothers are more likely to smoke before or during pregnancy than older mothers and are also more likely to continue to smoke throughout pregnancy. 68% of mothers aged 20 or under reported smoking before or during pregnancy and 45% continued to smoke.
Stopping smoking during pregnancy is the single most important step a mother can take to benefit her health and her baby’s health.
North Yorkshire Stop Smoking Service NHS provides one-to-one or group sessions with trained stop smoking advisors. We also have pregnancy stop smoking specialists who can offer advice about dealing with stress, weight gain and the nicotine replacement therapy available to help manage cravings.
Find out more or make a referral:
| Locality | Advisor | Expertise | Direct contact | North Yorkshire Stop Smoking Service |
| Craven | Frances Astin | Frances is a Specialist Stop Smoking Advisor based in Skipton. She offers a range of one-to-one and group sessions in the Craven district. | 01756 701737 | 0300 303 1603 |
| Harrogate and Rural district | Jo Rollerson | Jo is a Smoking in Pregnancy Advisor. Jo offers a one-to-one service to pregnant women who smoke and their partners. She is based at Harrogate Hospital. | 01423 553009 | |
| Hambleton and Richmondshire |
Christiane Adams
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Christiane is a Midwife and Smoking in Pregnancy Advisor who offers a one-to-one service to pregnant women who smoke and their partners. Christiane is based at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton but also offers ante natal services in Catterick. | 01609 764814 | |
| Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale | Sue Cullen | Sue is a Smoking in Pregnancy Advisor offering a one-to-one service to pregnant women who smoke and their partners at a range of community and health centres in the Scarborough district. | 01723 342877 | |
| Selby and York | Siobhan Farnsworth | Siobhan is a Smoking in Pregnancy Advisor who offers a one-to-one service to pregnant women who smoke and their partners at community and health centres in York and Selby |
Please see the Smoking in Pregnancy Factsheet for further information and advice on smoking in pregnancy.
Call the National NHS Pregnancy Smoking Helpline on 0800 169 9 169 or visit www.smokefree.nhs.uk
