School of Public Health faculty, Drs. Murphy, Micalizzi, Sokolovsky, and Risica, along with colleagues, recently published an article titled "Motivational Interviewing Telephone Counseling to Increase Postpartum Maintenance of Abstinence from Tobacco" in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.

Key Highlights from the article include: (1) although many women quit smoking while pregnant, rates of relapse after delivery are high, (2) motivational interviewing calls did not facilitate postpartum maintenance of abstinence, and (3) intervention delivery to underserved postpartum women must reduce participant burden.