Jump to full article: Liverpool Daily Post & Echo (uk), 2003-01-22
Author: Suzanne Elsworth Daily Post Staff
Intro: HOSPITAL chiefs say they will do everything they can to stop pregnant women from smoking for the good of their health and that of their unborn child.
But health experts have expressed strong concerns.
An e-mail leaked to the Daily Post and written by a senior NHS adviser says smokers may just smoke more to compensate for the missing nicotine.
It adds: "Unless there is clear evidence that people do cut down as a result of using the product, then on safety and ethical grounds its use in pregnant women is strongly contradicated."
The report by regional NHS smoking cessation advisers, obtained by the Daily Post, says the focus on the effects of smoking in pregnancy on the health of the woman, unborn child and immediate family, which this trial at Liverpool Women's Hospital has brought about, is to be welcomed. . .
"Only 3pc of people stop smoking successfully when they rely on willpower alone "NicoBloc, however, offers preg-nant women a safe and natural solution should they be unable to quit through willpower alone.
"Research also demonstrates that, contrary to other opinion, smokers using NicoBloc on their cigarette filters do not draw harder to compensate for the lost level of nicotine."
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