Postnatal support and smokefree homes
Here you'll find resources and information to enable Health Visitors and other healthcare professionals to support women and parents to quit smoking post-delivery and maintain smokefree homes long term.
Resources
Smoking and your baby: advice for parents leaflet
The Challenge Group 'Smoking and your Baby' leaflet is designed to support conversations with parents and families. The leaflet can be viewed and downloaded here or ordered for free by healthcare teams.
Please note: These leaflets should be ordered by health visiting services to be used consistently across the service. If we receive very small requests we may need to follow this up with your service manager
Secondhand smoke postcards
The Challenge Group has developed 5 postcard resources highlighting the harms of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure in the home and the benefits of quitting smoking or switching to an e-cigarette. They include messages targeted at women and families who have recently had a baby, are currently pregnant or are planning for another child.
The postcards are designed to be used directly with women and families and can also serve as training aids.
The download includes:
- 5 postcards with information about the delivery of Very Brief Advice (VBA), the harms of SHS exposure and the impact of smoking during pregnancy
- Print, standard and editable powerpoint versions
- Generic versions linking to the NHS Smokefree website & editable versions which allow colleagues to add the number of their local stop smoking service
Webinars
Love my lungs: supporting NICUs to help parents quit smoking (June 2022)
This webinar, hosted by ASH and the Smoking in Pregnancy Challenge Group, showcases the ‘Love my Lungs’ (LML) package which has been designed to prompt and support families of babies admitted to neonatal intensive care (NICU) to maintain smokefree homes.
Health visiting and relapse prevention (April 2019)
This Challenge Group webinar explores the role of health visiting in supporting women to stay smokefree following birth and protecting future pregnancies through relapse prevention