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Consumption amongst present smokers:<br />
Question 6: How many cigarettes did you smoke yesterday?<br />
The present smokers smoked 2 – 40 cigarettes per day giving an average<br />
smoking consumption of ten cigarettes per day (median 10.0).<br />
Question 7: How many cigarettes did you smoke per day before you<br />
discovered this pregnancy?<br />
Those women interviewed acknowledged that they smoked 0 – 50 cigarettes<br />
(median 25.0) giving an average of 25 per day.<br />
Question 8: During this pregnancy, did you try to reduce smoking?<br />
Table 6.<br />
During Frequency % Cumulative<br />
15<br />
Frequency<br />
Cumulative<br />
%<br />
Yes 86 82.7% 86 82.9%<br />
No 17 16.3% 103 99.0%<br />
No answer 1 .9% 104 100<br />
The answering to question eight has indicated a strong motivation amongst<br />
those interviewed to reduce tobacco consumption during their pregnancy with<br />
almost 82.69. % saying yes while the much lesser figure of 16.35 indicated<br />
no. A raw linkage of these facts with the results to question five is further<br />
proof that there was strong motivation to quit smoking during pregnancy<br />
amongst the respondents.<br />
Question 9: During the three months before you got pregnant, did<br />
you try to quit?<br />
Table 7. (Present Smokers)<br />
Before Frequency % Cumulative Cumulative<br />
Frequency Percent<br />
Yes 38 36.5% 38 36.5%<br />
No 63 60.5% 101 97.1%
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