Are financial incentives cost-effective to support smoking cessation during pregnancy?

Are financial incentives cost-effective to support smoking cessation during pregnancy?

AIMS To investigate the cost-effectiveness of up to £400 worth of financial incentives for smoking cessation in pregnancy as an adjunct to routine health care. DESIGN Cost-effectiveness analysis based on a Phase II randomized controlled trial (RCT) and a cost-utility analysis using a life-time Markov model. SETTING The RCT was undertaken in Glasgow, Scotland. The economic analysis was under...

Cost-effectiveness of financial incentives for smoking cessation in pregnancy.

Financial incentives for smoking cessation in pregnancy: randomised controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of a financial incentive added to routine specialist pregnancy stop smoking services versus routine care to help pregnant smokers quit. DESIGN Phase II therapeutic exploratory single centre, individually randomised controlled parallel group superiority trial. SETTING One large health board area with a materially deprived, inner city population in the west of...

quit4u: the effectiveness of combining behavioural support, pharmacotherapy and financial incentives to support smoking cessation.

The 'quit4u' stop smoking service (SSS) was developed by National Health Service (NHS) Tayside for smokers in deprived areas of Dundee (UK). quit4u combined behavioural support and pharmacotherapy with financial incentives for each week that participants remained quit. A quasi-experimental study was undertaken with smokers using quit4u between 2009 and 2011 compared with smokers using SSSs in t...

Financial incentives for smoking cessation in pregnancy: a single-arm intervention study assessing cessation and gaming

AIMS Financial incentives were the single most effective intervention for smoking cessation in pregnancy in a recent Cochrane Review, but based on a few small trials in the United States using only 7-day point prevalence measures of cessation. This study estimates (a) prolonged cessation in an unselected population of English pregnant smokers who are offered financial incentives for quitting an...