Nicotine gum has benefits in pregnant smokers

Oct. 7, 2008

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Chewing nicotine gum may not help pregnant women stop smoking, but it may help them cut back on the number of cigarettes they smoke each day and this may cut their risk of having a premature baby or a low-birthweight baby, US researchers report.

Exercise helps moms-to-be quit smoking

LONDON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Twenty percent of U.S. women and 17 percent of British women admit to smoking during pregnancy, but exercise may help them quit, British researchers said.

Dental work safe for pregnant women

CHICAGO, June 12 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they have confirmed that women who are two- to five-months pregnant can safely undergo essential dental treatment.

Study: Pregnant women should use seatbelts

ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 4 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers suggest 200 fetuses could be saved each year if pregnant women buckled their seatbelts.

Gestational diabetes linked to gum disease

NEW YORK, March 25 (UPI) -- Pregnant women with gum disease are more likely to develop gestational diabetes, U.S. researchers said.

Easy going kids for moms who quit smoking

YORK, England, March 13 (UPI) -- A study of 18,000 babies born in the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2002 found pregnant women who quit smoking had a better chance of an easy going child.

Hookah smoking not safer

BOSTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Many students and young adults say smoking from a hookah, or water pipe, is less harmful than cigarettes, but a U.S. newsletter says it may be more harmful.

Smoking increases pre-eclampsia risk

NOTTINGHAM, England, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Pregnant women at risk of pre-eclampsia are putting their babies at risk if they continue to smoke during pregnancy, a British researcher said.

Study: Smokers are sleep deprived

BALTIMORE, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Cigarette smokers are four times as likely as non-smokers to report feeling unrested after a night's sleep, U.S. researchers found.

Less nicotine in cigarettes cut smoking

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Nov. 15 (UPI) -- U.S scientists report they have found a way to reduce smokers' nicotine dependence while allowing them to continue smoking.

Nicotine vaccine helps smokers quit

OMAHA, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say a clinical trial shows a nicotine vaccine can help people quit smoking and produces antibodies against nicotine.

Nicotine may accelerate atherosclerosis

NEW YORK, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Smoking cigarettes raises the risk of health problems from cancer to heart disease, but a U.S. study found smoking also increases hardening of the arteries.

Teen smokers have attention deficit

NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 22 (UPI) -- A U.S. study finds that teen smokers have difficulty paying attention, with those whose mothers smoked while pregnant having the hardest time.