The use of medicinal nicotine in pregnancy for smoking cessation

Background Smoking during pregnancy is the leading preventable cause of poor birth outcomes for mothers and babies. In 2010, 26% of women smoked during or in the 12 months prior to pregnancy, and 12% smoked throughout pregnancy. 120 trials of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) have shown that i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vaz, Luis Reeves
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30634/