Mom's Quit Connection Analysis

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Mom’s Quit Connection (MQC) is a program for pregnant mothers and new mothers who want to stop smoking. MQC is part of Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative and is funded by the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services. MQC is a free smoke-free program that helps moms or future moms by providing face-to-face counseling or assistance by phone. In other to be part of the program the participants do not have to be ready to quit smoking, which is strength of the program and an example of social cognitive theory. For example, when the participants enter the program they might not be ready to stop smoking, but providing access to mothers who are not ready to quit smoking is a way of using reciprocal determinism, which is the concept that