Statistics on Women's Smoking Status at Time of Delivery: England, Q4 2025/26

Annual comparison

For SATOD v2, 4.2% of women were known to be smokers at the time of delivery in 2025-26. This is a decrease from 5.6% in 2024-25 (see the historical comparative data tab in the Excel tables for SATOD v2 data prior to 2025-26).

Quarterly comparison

For SATOD v2, 3.8% of women were known to be smokers at the time of delivery in quarter 4 of 2025-26. This compares with 4.1% of women from the previous quarter. We advise not to make any direct comparisons using data from SATOD v1.

The chart below shows a time series for SATOD v1 to the end of 2024-25 as this is the period where SATOD v1 was the primary source of data for SATOD.  From Q1 2025-26 SATOD v2 figures are used.

Based on SATOD v2, in quarter 4 of 2025-2026, the lowest proportions of women known to be smokers at time of delivery were in NHS South Yorkshire ICB - 03N (1.7%), NHS North West London ICB - W2U3Z (1.7%) and NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB - 03W (1.7%).

NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB - 06T had a smoking rate of 0%, this is due to small numbers after data for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust was excluded from their total after failing data quality checks in Q4.

Those with the highest proportions were NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB - 00R (9.0%), NHS Norfolk and Waveney ICB - 26A (7.5%) and NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB - 03F (7.1%).