How Financial Incentives Increase Smoking Cessation: A Two-Level Path Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Financial incentives effectively increase smoking cessation rates, but it is unclear via which psychological mechanisms incentives influence quit behavior. The current study examines how receiving financial incentives for smoking cessation leads to quitting smoking and investigates several mediators and moderators of that relationship.

Aims and methods

The study sample consisted of 604 tobacco-smoking employees from 61 companies in the Netherlands who completed a baseline and follow-up questionnaire. The current study is a secondary analysis from a cluster randomized trial where employees received smoking cessation group counseling at the workplace. Participants in the intervention group additionally received financial incentives of €350 in total for 12-month co

SUBMITTER: van den Brand FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7789935 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature