Evaluation of Combined Financial Incentives and Deposit Contract Intervention for Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

We evaluate whether a combination of financial incentives and deposit contracts improves cessation rates among low- to moderate-income smokers.

Methods

We randomly assigned 311 smokers covered by Medicaid at 12 health clinics in Connecticut to usual care or one of the three treatment arms. Each treatment arm received financial incentives for two months and either (i) nothing further ("incentives only"), (ii) the option to start a deposit contract with incentive earnings after the incentives ended ("commitment"), or (iii) the option to precommit any earned incentives into a deposit contract starting after the incentives ended ("precommitment"). Smoking cessation was confirmed biochemically at two, six, and twelve months.

Results

At two, six, and twelve mon

SUBMITTER: Anderson DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8279199 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature