Tobacco Smoking Cessation in Adults, Including Pregnant Persons: Behavioral and Pharmacotherapy Interventions — (Pregnant Persons)

1. Pharmacotherapy options, in particular nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), for pregnant persons for whom behavioral counseling interventions alone are not effective.
2. Larger studies adequately powered to detect an effect on both smoking cessation rates (during pregnancy and postpartum) and changes in perinatal and child health outcomes are needed.
3. Understanding of why adherence rates to NRT during pregnancy is so low.
4. Newer modalities and remotely delivered interventions (mobile phone apps, internet-based interventions).
5. Effectiveness of interventions for cessation of other forms of tobacco and whether interventions need to be tailored to individual tobacco product types
6. Interventions to prevent relapse of tobacco use.

The USPSTF concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of pharmacotherapy interventions for tobacco cessation in pregnant persons.

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