Financial Rewards for Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy and Birth Weight: A Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Offering pregnant women financial rewards to stop smoking is associated with a more than 2-fold increase in smoking cessation and is cost-effective; however, it is possible that the association is the result of gaming of the outcome measure (eg, not smoking for 24 hours before outcome measurement using a carbon monoxide breath test). Birth weight is an outcome measure that is independent of the rewards process.

Objective

To examine birth weight change associated with offering financial rewards for smoking cessation to pregnant women, and to estimate the average expected birth weight change for neonates born to those who quit smoking because of the rewards.

Data sources

Medline, American Psychological Association PsycInfo, Embase, Cochrane (the Cochrane Cent

SUBMITTER: Tappin D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11886724 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature