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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 26.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychobiol. 2009 Apr;51(3):234–242. doi: 10.1002/dev.20366

Table 2.

Self-Reports of Amounts of Smoking and Drinking “Just Before” and “During” Pregnancy From Women Administered the Substance Abuse Questionnaire at One of Their Prenatal Visits (Average Months Pregnant = 3.4 Months)

S−/A− (n = 41) S+/A− (n = 24) S−/A+ (n = 37) S+/A+ (n = 67)
Just before this pregnancy
    Cigarettes/day (median/range) 0 (0–0) 4 (1–60) 0 (0–0)   5 (1–40)
    Drinking (times/month) (median/range) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 1 (1–20)   2 (1–12)
    Drinking (usual # drinks) (median/range) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 4 (1–13)   6 (1–36)
    Total drinks/month (median/range) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 6 (1–240) 12 (1–144)

S−/A− (n = 88) S+/A− (n = 42) S−/A+ (n = 15) S+ /A+ (n = 20)

During this current pregnancy
    Cigarettes/day (median/range) 0 (0–0) 3 (0–60) 0 (0–0) 3.5 (1–20)
    Drinking (times/month) (median/range) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 2 (1–20) 1.5 (1–4)
    Drinking (usual # drinks) (median/range) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 3 (1–13)   3 (1–41)
    Total drinks/month (median/range) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 6 (1–240)   4 (1–41)

The top section shows median and ranges for 169 mothers who reported that “just before this pregnancy” they did not smoke or consume alcohol (S−/A−), smoked but not consume (S+/A−), consumed alcohol but did not smoke (S−/A+), or both smoked and consumed alcohol (S+/A+). The bottom section shows median and ranges for 165 mothers’ reports “during this current pregnancy.”