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Osem 28-01-2015 10:12
Vouchers help motivate pregnant mums to stop smoking
 
Quote:
Offering shopping vouchers worth a total of £400 to pregnant smokers makes them more likely to quit the habit, say researchers.

They have published the results of a trial involving 600 women from Glasgow in the British Medical Journal.

More than 20% of the women offered vouchers stopped smoking, compared with 9% given normal NHS support alone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31003254

I can see some logic in incentivising good behaviour but the fact that the health of the babies they're carrying isn't sufficiently motivating for some people has always baffled me.

dilli-theclaw 28-01-2015 10:20
Re: Vouchers help motivate pregnant mums to stop smoking
 
My dodgy eyes just read that as vouchers for pregnant nuns! Now THAT made me laugh :)

Osem 28-01-2015 10:30
Re: Vouchers help motivate pregnant mums to stop smoking
 
Glad I could cheer you up mate. :tu:

nomadking 28-01-2015 10:39
Re: Vouchers help motivate pregnant mums to stop smoking
 
Why isn't the money saved by not having to buy fags, an incentive all by itself?

heero_yuy 28-01-2015 10:47
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 35755718)
Why isn't the money saved by not having to buy fags, an incentive all by itself?
IQ?

Pierre 28-01-2015 11:01
Re: Vouchers help motivate pregnant mums to stop smoking
 
garbage.

richard s 28-01-2015 11:09
Re: Vouchers help motivate pregnant mums to stop smoking
 
I wonder if all motorists with diesel vehicles will get vouchers for not using them.

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/n...l-4-dispatches

Related deaths due to carbon monoxide is alarming.

weenie 28-01-2015 12:59
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The thought of your baby's health should be enough incentive to stop smoking as soon as you become aware that you are pregnant Give Up or even better (stop smoking before you become pregnant assuming you were trying for a baby). Eat right, avoid certain foods, don't drink alcohol and don't smoke it really is quite easy after all we know the risks now it is not like when I was born in 1969 where my Mum did not know any better and smoked with both me and my sister.

Osem 28-01-2015 13:06
Re: Vouchers help motivate pregnant mums to stop smoking
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by weenie (Post 35755754)
The thought of your baby's health should be enough incentive to stop smoking as soon as you become aware that you are pregnant Give Up or even better (stop smoking before you become pregnant assuming you were trying for a baby). Eat right, avoid certain foods, don't drink alcohol and don't smoke it really is quite easy after all we know the risks now it is not like when I was born in 1969 where my Mum did not know any better and smoked with both me and my sister.
Very true. :tu:

There's never been so much information so readily available, for those who can be bothered to look...

denphone 28-01-2015 13:15
Re: Vouchers help motivate pregnant mums to stop smoking
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by weenie (Post 35755754)
The thought of your baby's health should be enough incentive to stop smoking as soon as you become aware that you are pregnant Give Up or even better (stop smoking before you become pregnant assuming you were trying for a baby). Eat right, avoid certain foods, don't drink alcohol and don't smoke it really is quite easy after all we know the risks now it is not like when I was born in 1969 where my Mum did not know any better and smoked with both me and my sister.
+1

TheDaddy 28-01-2015 22:25
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£400 to potentially save one of the 5000 babies that die of smoking related causes, sounds cheap to me

Hom3r 28-01-2015 22:55
Re: Vouchers help motivate pregnant mums to stop smoking
 
How many would spend that £400 on fags & booze?

Osem 28-01-2015 22:57
Re: Vouchers help motivate pregnant mums to stop smoking
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hom3r (Post 35755863)
How many would spend that £400 on fags & booze?
A few I imagine, if they could... :shrug:

Matth 30-01-2015 01:06
Re: Vouchers help motivate pregnant mums to stop smoking
 
Smoke a little, then give up ... profit!

Halcyon 02-02-2015 12:46
Re: Vouchers help motivate pregnant mums to stop smoking
 
Why should my money (taxes, etc) be going on handing out vouchers to smokers!

It is totally irresponsible smoking whilst pregnant.

Just the other day I heard a pregnant woman being interviewed on the radio saying that because she couldn't feel her baby as yet then she didn't need to stop smoking!


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