Table 1.

Questions related to smoking during pregnancy in the 2008 Healthstyles© Survey

	FOR WOMEN ONLY
1.	Do you currently smoke cigarettes?
	Yes □ → (Go to the Question below) No □ →(Skip the Question below)
2.	If you were thinking about becoming pregnant, what would your doctor or health professional need to say to you before you would consider quitting smoking? (“X” ALL THAT APPLY)
	My doctor would not have to give any specific reason—I would quit smoking	□
	Smoking before pregnancy makes it harder to become pregnant	□
	Smoking during pregnancy increases the chance of having a miscarriage	□
	Smoking during pregnancy increases the chance of having a baby born too small or born too early	□
	Smoking during pregnancy increases the chance of a baby being born with cleft lip or cleft palate (birth defects of the upper lip and mouth)	□
	Smoking increases the chance of a baby dying of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)	□
	I would not consider quitting smoking for any of these reasons	□
	FOR EVERYONE
3.	Which of the following have you heard could result from smoking during pregnancy? (“X” ALL THAT APPLY)
	Miscarriage	□
	Problems with the placenta (mother’s organ that supplies the baby’s oxygen and nutrition)	□
	Baby born too small (low birth weight) or too early	□
	Baby born with cleft lip or cleft palate (birth defects of the upper lip and mouth)	□
	Baby born with hearing loss	□*
	Baby is more likely to die from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)	□
4.	A woman who smokes can improve the health of her unborn baby if she quits smoking during which, if any, of the following times? (“X” ALL THAT APPLY)
	Before becoming pregnant	□
	Early in the pregnancy, before the 3rd month	□
	Later in pregnancy, after the 3rd month	□
	None of these	□

^*‘Baby born with hearing loss’ was added as a distracter among the responses to differentiate the respondents who checked all the responses indiscriminately.