ABOUT OUR PROGRAM

 
Kicking Butts for Healthy Babies is a countywide project to decrease the number of women who smoke during pregnancy. Smoking and pregnancy is the number one preventable cause of infant death. Catawba County Health Department has joined together with Catawba Women's Center, Piedmont OB/GYN, PA, The Woman's Clinic, Catawba Valley Medical Center and Frye Regional Medical Center through a grant from the March of Dimes to assist health care providers in these settings to better help women quit smoking before, during, and after pregnancy. This site is full of information for health care providers and anyone who is a smoker, has a friend or a relative who is a smoker, is a teen who is thinking about smoking or has friends who smoke, or who is a student doing a school report on smoking. Just go to one of our resource pages and get more information.

This program was modeled after the WHISC program sponsored by Northwest AHEC. We are grateful for their assistance throughout this project.

For more information on Kicking Butts for Babies Campaign contact Lisa Moore, Catawba County Health Department, 828-695-5860 or TRACEY@catawbacountync.gov