Smoking in pregnancy is a risk factor of fetus hypoxia and wheezing in infants. Nevertheless, smoking cessation in women stays a pressing problem concerning poor health status of women of childbearing age in our country.
Aim: to study the smoking status of women with normal and complicated pregnancy.
Materials and methods: we accessed smoking status in 82 pregnant (pr.). According to the presence of concomitant diseases they were divided into three groups (G): G1 ? healthy pr. (n= 14 pts.; age [M±m] 27,1±3,4 yrs.), G2 ? pr. with extragenital disease: hypertension (18), diabetes (12), asthma(6) (n= 36 pts.; age [M±m] 27,3±4,4 yrs.), G3 ? pr. with obstetric pathology (n= 32 pts.; age [M±m] 29,0±5,3 yrs.). Results are shown in Table 1.
| G 1 (n (%)) | G 2 (n (%)) | G 3 (n (%)) | p | |
| Smoked at least one year before pr. | 6 (42,8) | 11 (30,5) | 12 (37,5) | > 0,05 |
| Continue smoking while pregnant | 2 (7,1) | 1 (2,7) | 2 (6,2) | > 0,05 |
| Quit smoking because of pr., but are passive smokers | 4 (28,5) |
7 (19,4) | 10 (31,2) | > 0,05 |
| Never smoked, but are passive smokers | 3 (21,4) | 10 (27,7) | 11 (34,3) | > 0,05 |
Conclusions: there is still a substantial number of smokers among women of childbearing age independent of their health status. Even though the majority of women quitted smoking because of pregnancy, they still suffered the impact of passive smoking.