Smoking during pregnancy can lead to many negative outcomes that are wide-ranging and long-lasting. Smoking not only affects the health of the fetus; it is also detrimental to physical and psychological health and development during infancy, childhood, adolescence and into adulthood.
Each smoke-free breath that a mother takes greatly improves her health and that of her children. We know that quitting can be hard, but we also know that it can be done.
Health care providers play a huge role and can help pregnant and early postpartum women and their babies to become the healthiest they can be.
AFMC works to improve maternal, fetal and infant health by promoting the widespread adoption of current and future “best practice” interventions for pregnant smokers.
To find out more, contact our
physician office quality improvement team