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

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...

Effectiveness of pharmacotherapy in behavioural therapeutic smoking cessation programmes.

BACKGROUND In 2011, pharmacotherapy as a part of smoking cessation treatment was reimbursed through the basic health insurance in the Netherlands. We examine the (cost)-effectiveness of pharmacotherapy added to behavioural therapy. METHODS An observational study was conducted using data from the suppliers of the smoking cessation programmes together with information on costs from health insur...

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