Heterogeneity in the Effects of Reward- and Deposit-based Financial Incentives on Smoking Cessation.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Targeting different smoking cessation programs to smokers most likely to quit when using them could reduce the burden of lung disease.

Objectives

To identify smokers most likely to quit using pure reward-based financial incentives or incentive programs requiring refundable deposits to become eligible for rewards.

Methods

We conducted prespecified secondary analyses of a randomized trial in which 2,538 smokers were assigned to an $800 reward contingent on sustained abstinence from smoking, a refundable $150 deposit plus a $650 reward, or usual care.

Measurements and main results

Using logistic regression, we identified characteristics of smokers that were most strongly associated with accepting their assigned intervention and ceasing smoking for 6 mont

SUBMITTER: Halpern SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5067821 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature