Cost-Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Treatment Initiated During Psychiatric Hospitalization

Cost effectiveness analysis of smoking cessation interventions.

OBJECTIVE To identify which smoking cessation interventions provide the most efficient use of health care resources at a population level. METHODS Effectiveness data were obtained from a review of the international literature. Costs and effects of smoking cessation interventions were estimated from the perspective of the Australian Government. Treatment costs and effects were modelled using i...

Cost-effectiveness of pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation

Cost-effectiveness analysis, even with its inherent methodological problems, consistently shows that when smoking cessation interventions are effective they are invariably also cost-effective. This is largely due to their relative low cost and the big impact that stopping smoking has on health outcomes. This is also the case for pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation, including nicotine replacem...

Sudden infant death syndrome, maternal smoking during pregnancy, and the cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation intervention.

OBJECTIVES This study analyzed the relationship between prenatal maternal smoking and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and examined the cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions. METHODS All recorded US singleton SIDS deaths from the 1995 birth cohort with birthweight exceeding 500 g were investigated. Infants with available maternal smoking data were matched with controls who ...

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

Cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation modalities: comparing apples with oranges?

BACKGROUND Although the results of self-help and group treatments for smoking cessation are known, the cost effectiveness and participants' characteristics of these treatments remain mostly undetermined. METHODS Consecutive samples of 84 self-help manual requesters and 83 group participants in a Dutch community-based smoking cessation program were subjected to telephone interviews before trea...