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Smoking Cessation

Smoking during pregnancy is the most common preventable risk factor for pregnancy complications and supporting women to stop smoking during pregnancy can reduce the risk of adverse outcomes for mothers and their babies. Smoking is associated with poorer perinatal outcomes, including low birthweight, being small for gestational age, pre-term birth and perinatal death.

The most recent data shows that almost 1 in 10 mothers (9.3%) report smoking at any time during pregnancy, a rate that has been gradually falling since data became available in 2009 (14.6%). Teenage mothers (aged under 20) were the most likely to smoke (33%), followed by mothers aged 20–24 years (21%).’

AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) 2020. National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2019.

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