Incentive payments increased quit rates among low-income smokers in Switzerland
Tuesday, August 16, 2016 - 06:01
in Mathematics & Economics
Paying smokers to quit with payments that increased with the length of abstinence led one third of participants in a study to stop smoking for six months, according to research. While a large group relapsed after payments ended, abstinence rates a full year after the last incentive were almost 6 percentage points higher among smokers who received financial incentives compared to those who did not.