Smoking Cessation in Pregnancy within the Framework of Health Behavioral Theories: A Current Review.

Since smoking during pregnancy affects both health of the mother and the baby, smoking cessation during pregnancy is an important health behavior and is one of the important issues of health psychology. The aim of this article is to review descriptive studies which handle smoking cessation during pregnancy within the framework of "health behavioral theories" and theory-based intervention studies conducted after 2000 about this topic. For this purpose, several databases were scanned with the "smoking cessation in pregnant women", "health behavior models", "theory-based interventions" keywords between February-March 2021. Approximately 70 related articles were accessed, but only 9 of them were evaluated within the scope of theory-based interventions. It was seen that achieved studies were handled within the scope of social cognitive theory, planned behavior theory and transtheoretical model, and self-efficacy as a trans-theoretical concept was the important predictor of intention to quit smoking among pregnant women. Although it is difficult to mention clear findings about the effectiveness of theory-based interventions on this topic, studies have pointed out that interventions based on stages of change can be supportive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]