TY - JOUR T1 - Women's stories of smoking relapse after the birth of a child were underpinned by combinations of 5 storylines JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 29 LP - 29 DO - 10.1136/ebn.4.1.29 VL - 4 IS - 1 A2 - , Y1 - 2001/01/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/4/1/29.abstract N2 - Bottorff JL, Johnson JL, Irwin LG, et al.Narratives of smoking relapse: the stories of postpartum women.Res Nurs Health2000 Apr;23:126–34OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science QUESTION: How do women describe their experiences of smoking relapse after the birth of a child? Narrative analysis.Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.27 women (age range 18–39 y) who had stopped smoking during pregnancy and relapsed during the postpartum period were recruited after participation in a clinical trial of smoking relapse prevention and by a newspaper advertisement.During one hour telephone or face to face interviews, women told their stories of smoking relapse. Interviews were tape recorded and transcribed verbatim. Analysis of data included close readings of the narratives; preparation of brief summaries and line drawing representations; and identification, coding, re-reading, and probing of central storylines.In telling their stories, women used various combinations of 5 general storylines. The first, controlling one's smoking, was about beginning with an unplanned “puff” of a cigarette at a social gathering or during a stressful time, which developed into a pattern of infrequent puffs and borrowed … ER -