Preventing Postpartum Return to Smoking

Study staff contact women when they are between 28 and 34 weeks pregnant, confirm their non-smoking status, and make an appointment to explain the study further, obtain written informed consent, conduct the risk assessment, and collect baseline data. Bio-behavioral and pregnancy-specific factors are used to triage women in the treatment arm to one of four levels of stepped-care that includes one in-person counseling session and at least one telephone session during pregnancy and from 6 to 11 telephone sessions over the first 9-months postpartum.