Smoking Cessation Programs in Pregnancy

Mom�s Quit Connection, New Jersey�s free maternal child health smoking cessation program, offers counseling to patients and brief intervention training to clinicians. The clinician is able to use a pro active fax referral form to enroll patients in counseling. The partnership between MQC and the clinician offers a comfortable forum for assessment of the patients smoking status and advice about changing their consumption. The fax provides clinicians with an easy � to � use referral source. MQC offers each client a pregnancy/post partum individual treatment plan using behavior modification. We provide one on one cessation counseling as well as telephone support. We meet our clients in a location that they can get to easily. WIC sites, prenatal clinics, as well as other community sites. Over the past 7 years MQC has found the best approach to reach women during preconception, pregnancy and those parenting young children is to partner with the medical community who treats and

serves these clients.