'Secretly, it's a competition': a qualitative study investigating what helped employees quit smoking during a workplace smoking cessation group training programme with incentives.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Smoking cessation programmes in combination with financial incentives have shown to increase quit rates in smokers, but it is not clear which elements of this intervention help smokers to succeed in their quit attempt. The aim of this study was to explore the view of successful and unsuccessful quitters about which factors had affected their ability to quit smoking.

Design

Semistructured qualitative interviews were conducted and analysed using the Framework method.

Setting

Interviews were conducted in 2017 with employees from nine different Dutch companies.

Participants

24 successful and unsuccessful quitters from the intervention group of a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) who participated in a workplace smoking cessation group training pro

SUBMITTER: Van den Brand FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6254401 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature