{"id":5774,"date":"2018-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/24\/financial-incentives-may-up-rates-of-smoker-abstinence\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T15:07:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T15:07:35","slug":"financial-incentives-may-up-rates-of-smoker-abstinence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/24\/financial-incentives-may-up-rates-of-smoker-abstinence\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Incentives May Up Rates of Smoker Abstinence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Redeemable deposits, rewards superior to free cessation aids with respect to sustained abstinence<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, May 24, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Financial incentives added to free cessation aids can improve the rate of sustained abstinence among smokers, according to a study published online May 23 in the <i>New England Journal of Medicine<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Scott D. Halpern, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues randomized smokers employed by 54 companies to one of four smoking-cessation interventions or usual care. Usual care consisted of access to information relating to the benefits of smoking cessation and a motivational text messaging service. The interventions consisted of usual care plus one of the following: free cessation aids (nicotine-replacement therapy or pharmacotherapies, plus e-cigarettes if standard therapies failed); free e-cigarettes; free cessation aids plus $600 in rewards for sustained abstinence; and free cessation aids plus $600 in redeemable funds deposited in a separate account for each participant, with money removed if cessation milestones were not met. A total of 6,006 smokers were randomized.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that sustained abstinence rates through six months were 0.1, 0.5, 1, 2, and 2.9 in the usual care, free cessation aids, free e-cigarettes, rewards, and redeemable deposit groups, respectively. The redeemable deposits and rewards were superior to free cessation aids with respect to sustained abstinence rates. Redeemable deposits were superior to free e-cigarettes; free e-cigarettes were not superior to usual care or free cessation aids.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this pragmatic trial of smoking cessation, financial incentives added to free cessation aids resulted in a higher rate of sustained smoking abstinence than free cessation aids alone,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMsa1715757\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redeemable deposits, rewards superior to free cessation aids with respect to sustained abstinence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-5774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}