# USPSTF 2021: interventions for tobacco smoking cessation in adults, including pregnant persons

Guideline · id `maternal:guideline-uspstf-2021-tobacco-cessation` · Maternal & Newborn Atlas · release `c7fb95f1d15a7d13` (public)

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## In plain language

A 2021 statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force on helping adults, including pregnant people, to stop using tobacco. It updates the task force’s 2015 recommendation.

## Technical summary

USPSTF recommendation statement, JAMA 2021, volume 325, issue 3 (PubMed issue date 2021-01-19); an update of the 2015 recommendation. It gives separate statements for nonpregnant adults, for pregnant persons (behavioral interventions, an A recommendation; pharmacotherapy, an I statement) and for e-cigarettes (an I statement). Whether a later edition exists was not checked. The guideline's source is the USPSTF final recommendation statement page, which gives the statement date that the recommendation decisions use; the JAMA statement stays cited in the claims.

## Connected pages

- Issued by the US Preventive Services Task Force: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (`core:uspstf`)

## Provenance

Content hash: 8ccb6bb9cda7f404a881b9fc2eff09b640e2a0d503c33efd5407350d5ab0e5de
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-14
Evidence last checked: 2026-10-14