Time-discounting and tobacco smoking: a systematic review and network analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tobacco smoking harms health, so why do people smoke and fail to quit? An explanation originating in behavioural economics suggests a role for time-discounting, which describes how the value of a reward, such as better health, decreases with delay to its receipt. A large number of studies test the relationship of time-discounting with tobacco outcomes but the temporal pattern of this relationship and its variation according to measurement methods remain unclear. We review the association between time-discounting and smoking across (i) the life course, from initiation to cessation, and (ii) diverse discount measures.

Methods

We identified 69 relevant studies in Web of Science and PubMed. We synthesized findings across methodologies and evaluated discount measures,

SUBMITTER: Barlow P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5637946 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature