How and why do financial incentives contribute to helping people stop smoking? A realist review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Smoking is harmful to human health and programmes to help people stop smoking are key public health efforts that improve individual and population health outcomes. Research shows that financial incentives improve the success of stop smoking programmes. However, a better understanding of how they work is needed to better inform policy and to support building capability for implementation.The aims of this study: (1) To review the international literature to understand: How, why, in what circumstances and for whom financial incentives improve the success of stop smoking interventions among general population groups and among pregnant women. (2) To provide recommendations for how to best use financial incentives in efforts to promote smoking cessation.

Methods and analy

SUBMITTER: Siersbaek R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9204444 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature