1. Every Child Matters 24th March 2018 Carol Mills – Pregnancy Advisor

2. NICE PH26 2010 Smoking: stopping in pregnancy and after childbirth
Encouraging pregnant women to stop smoking during pregnancy may also help them stop smoking for good. This offers health benefits for the mother but also reduces exposure to secondhand smoke for the infant.
As the health gains are so large, even small successes with pregnant smokers, and their partners if they also smoke, are worth higher levels of investment.

3. Impact of smoking to mother and baby
Ectopic pregnancy
Miscarriage
Placental abnormalities
Premature rupture of foetal membranes
Still-birth
Preterm delivery
Low birth weight ( g lighter)
Perinatal mortality
Sudden infant death syndrome
Maternal nausea
Ref: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (2010)

4. Impact of smoking - baby
Cleft lip and palate
Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Impaired lung function & cardio-vascular damage
Acute respiratory conditions e.g. asthma
Learning difficulties
Problems of the ear, nose and throat
Obesity
Diabetes
Meningitis
Ref:National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (2010)

5. Children are more likely to become smokers themselves – perpetuates cycles of health inequalities
Ref: Loureiro M, Sanz-de-Galdeano A & Vuri D (2010). Smoking Habits: Like Father, Like Son, Like Mother, Like Daughter? Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 72(3):

6. Each year nearly 10,000 children are treated in hospital for exposure to second-hand smoke
Reference: Passive smoking and children, A report by the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians, March 2010

7. Smokefree Sefton - Pregnant Clients
We offer home visits or clinic appointments whichever the client prefers
We are happy to see partners and any other family members who also want to quit or harm reduce
We see clients weekly and also send motivational texts in between
We provide Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)
Behavioural support is an essential part of our work
We discuss and encourage families to make their homes smokefree

8. Options
Me Time Club
Group sessions each week offering stop smoking support plus other lifestyle advice – healthy eating & cooking, breast feeding, yoga, massage, debt advice - working with our other partners
Clinic Appointments
One to one sessions, morning, afternoons and evenings, usually see the same advisor each week

9. Sefton Office Burlington House, Crosby Road, Waterloo, L22 0PJ Tel:   Fax: 

10. Thank you, any questions?