{"id":413536,"date":"2025-09-10T16:14:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413536\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:14:22","slug":"voucher-scheme-helps-pregnant-women-in-barnsley-quit-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413536\/","title":{"rendered":"Voucher scheme helps pregnant women in Barnsley quit smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now pregnant with her second child, Ashleigh said she had stopped smoking about eight weeks into the pregnancy and had used the vouchers to buy baby clothes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As soon as I found out I was pregnant this time, I was immediately put in contact with the stop smoking midwives because I knew that I didn&#8217;t want to smoke during this pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt supported but not pressurised or judged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old said although she had moved on to vapes, she was hoping to stop those too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m almost 20 weeks pregnant now so I&#8217;m hoping in the next 10 weeks I&#8217;m going to be able to become completely nicotine free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mum-to-be Natalie Simpson, who also started smoking at 14, said she had managed to switch to vapes eight weeks into her pregnancy after being surprised by her high carbon monoxide reading. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 42-year-old said: &#8220;I did stop smoking for two years a while ago but then started back up again after going through a stressful time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added:  &#8220;When they explained my score I thought wow, that&#8217;s quite high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a shock and I decided then I wanted to stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now pregnant with her second child, Ashleigh said she had stopped smoking about eight weeks into the pregnancy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-413536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115180895131967930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}