Public acceptability of financial incentives to reward pregnant smokers who quit smoking: a United Kingdom-France comparison.

ABSTRACT: A substantial amount of research has been conducted on financial incentives to increase abstinence from smoking among pregnant smokers. If demonstrated to be effective, financial incentives could be proposed as part of health care interventions to help pregnant smokers quit. Public acceptability is important; as such interventions could be publicly funded. Concerns remain about the acceptability of these interventions in the general population. We aimed to assess the acceptability of financial incentives to reward pregnant smokers who stop smoking using a survey conducted in the UK and then subsequently in France, two developed countries with different cultural and social backgrounds. More French than British respondents agreed with financial incentives for rewarding quitting smoking durin

SUBMITTER: Berlin N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5948294 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature