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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Med. 2018 Nov 20;118:264–271. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.11.012

Table 1:

Study Sample Description, PRAMS, 2009 – 2011.

Women who smoked before pregnancy n=15,136 Women who quit smoking during pregnancy n=7,151
Did not smoke during pregnancy n=7,828 Smoked during pregnancy n= 7,308 p-value Sustained abstinence postpartum n=4,025 Postpartum smoking relapse n=3,126 p-value
Age (years) <.0001 <.0001
    <=17 278 (3.6) 185 (2.6) 121 (3.0) 137 (4.4)
    18–19 777 (9.9) 665 (9.1) 311 (7.7) 390 (12.5)
    20–24 2,556 (32.7) 2,541 (34.8) 1,219 (30.3) 1,110 (35.5)
    25–29 2,170 (27.7) 2,083 (28.5) 1,136 (28.2) 847 (27.1)
    30–34 1,391 (17.8) 1,160 (15.9) 825 (20.5) 459 (15.0)
    35–39 552 (7.0) 518 (7.1) 344 (8.6) 158 (5.1)
    >=40 104 (1.3) 156 (2.1) 69 (1.7) 25 (0.8)
Education level (years) <.0001 <.0001
    0–8 82 (1.1) 173 (2.4) 40 (1.0) 36 (1.2)
    9–11 1,262 (16.1) 1,843 (25.2) 503 (12.5) 644 (20.6)
    12 2,440 (31.2) 2,814 (38.5) 1,136 (28.2) 1,082 (34.6)
    13–15 2,858 (36.5) 2,202 (30.1) 1,588 (39.5) 1,016 (32.5)
    >=16 1,186 (15.2) 276 (3.8) 758 (18.8) 348 (11.1)
Marital Status <.0001 <.0001
    Married 3,531 (45.1) 2,511 (34.4) 2,068 (51.4) 1,194 (38.2)
    Other 4,297 (54.9) 4,797 (65.6) 1,957 (48.6) 1,932 (61.8)
Race <.0001 <.0001
    Other Asian 110 (1.4) 64 (0.9) 61 (1.5) 39 (1.3)
    White 5,178 (66.2) 5,012 (68.6) 2,810 (69.8) 1,936 (61.9)
    Black 1,081 (13.8) 1,087 (14.9) 367 (9.1) 577 (18.5)
    American Indian 600 (7.7) 444 (6.1) 308 (7.7) 256 (8.2)
    Chinese 9 (0.1) 1 (0.0) 7 (0.2) 2 (0.1)
    Japanese 11 (0.1) 6 (0.1) 9 (0.2) 2 (0.1)
    Filipino 27 (0.3) 17 (0.2) 21 (0.5) 4 (0.1)
    Hawaiian 4 (0.1) 4 (0.1) 2 (0.1) 2 (0.1)
    Other race 251 (3.2) 104 (1.4) 140 (3.5) 91 (2.9)
    Alaskan Native 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
    Mixed race 557 (7.1) 5269 (7.8) 300 (7.5) 217 (6.9)
Hispanic ethnicity <.0001 0.0055
    No 6,918 (88.4) 6,817 (93.3) 3,506 (87.1) 2,790 (89.3)
    Yes 910 (11.6) 491 (6.7) 519 (12.9) 336 (10.8)
Quality of prenatal care <.0001 0.0037
    Adequate 4,931 (63.0) 3,905 (53.4) 2,835 (70.4) 2,088 (66.8)
    Intermediate 1,743 (22.3) 1,915 (26.2) 933 (23.2) 803 (25.7)
    Inadequate 493 (6.3) 767 (10.5) 257 (6.4) 235 (7.5)
    Unknown 661 (8.4) 721 (9.9)
Parity <.0001 <.0001
    Primiparous 3,956 (50.5) 5,658 (36.4) 2,157 (53.6) 1,480 (47.3)
    Multiparous 3,872 (49.5) 4,650 (63.6) 1,868 (46.4) 1,646 (52.7)
Method of payment <.0001 <.0001
    Medicaid 4,143 (52.9) 5,191 (71.0) 1,892 (47.1) 1,881 (60.2)
    Other 3,685 (47.1) 2,117 (29.0) 2,133 (53.0) 1,245 (39.8)
Physical abuse during pregnancy <.0001 <.0008
    Yes 355 (4.5) 578 (7.9) 152 (3.8) 170 (5.4)
    Not reported 7,473 (95.5) 6,730 (92.1) 3,873 (96.2) 2,956 (94.6)
Days since delivery, mean (SD) 119.33 (34.6) 121.13 (37.0) 0.0021 114.85 (31.5) 123.88 (37.1) <.0001
Mode of participation 0.0426 <.0001
    Mail 6,095 (77.9) 5,589 (76.5 ) 3,319 (82.5) 2,269 (72.6)
    Phone 1,733 (22.1) 1,719 (23.5) 706 (17.5) 857 (27.4)

PRAMS= Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System; SD= standard deviation; n= number; %= percentage Distribution of characteristics and smoking status was assessed using chi-square tests or t-tests. Percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding.