Protecting children from tobacco smoke exposure could help mothers quit smoking, study suggests
In 2022, College of Public Health researchers Bradley Collins and Stephen Lepore published results of a groundbreaking clinical trial establishing the efficacy of a program they designed to help low-income mothers quit smoking. An innovative element of their intervention was counseling to help mothers learn how to protect their children from tobacco smoke. Mothers who participated in the program, called Babies Living Safe and Smokefree (BLiSS), were 9.55 times more likely to be abstaining from smoking 12 months following the start of the intervention than a control group. Even...