Lottery incentives for smoking cessation at the workplace: a cluster randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smoking is the largest behavioral risk factor for loss of healthy life years. Many smokers intend and try to quit, but have trouble realizing their behavioral health goals. When workplace cessation-support is accompanied by incentives, this can increase its effectiveness. Based on principles from behavioral economics and psychology, regret lotteries have supported the realization of other health behaviors. Regret lotteries capitalize regret aversion by always informing winners at the deadline, but withholding prizes if they smoked. This study builds on previous applications of regret lotteries to test its potential, using a novel combination of incentives, the workplace as a context and smoking as the target behavior.

Methods

We compared a workplace group cessatio

SUBMITTER: van der Swaluw K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12706908 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature