that health care professionals encourage breast-feeding mothers
to quit smoking (American Academy of Pediatrics Committee
on Drugs; Gartner et al.). Although nearly 50% of women quit
smoking during pregnancy, approximately half will relapse
within 6 months of delivery (Colman & Joyce, 2003). Thus,
postpartum smoking cessation interventions may help to
reduce relapse rates among women who quit smoking due to
pregnancy, reduce nicotine exposure among breast-feeding
infants, and increase the rates and duration of breast feeding
among women who smoked prior to or during pregnancy.