Cognitive-behavioral intervention to promote smoking cessation for pregnant and postpartum inner city women.

COGNITIVE therapy; HEALTH promotion; PREGNANCY & psychology; PUERPERIUM; SELF-efficacy; SMOKING cessation; WOMEN'S health; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; NURSING interventions

The article discusses a study which aims to differentiate the impact of a Cognitive-Social Health Information Processing (C-SHIP) based cognitive-behavioral counseling (CBC) against best practice (BP) intervention in smoking cessation among prepartum and postpartum women. Topics discussed include the measures applied which include baseline smoking behaviors such as nicotine addiction level, outcome variable such as smoking cessation rate, and mediating variable such as quitting self-efficacy.