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A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation
Author(s) -
Kevin G. Volpp,
Andrea B. Troxel,
Mark V. Pauly,
Henry A. Glick,
Andrea Puig,
David A. Asch,
Robert Galvin,
Jingsan Zhu,
Fei Wan,
Jill DeGuzman,
Elizabeth L. Corbett,
Janet Weiner,
Janet AudrainMcGovern
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmsa0806819
Subject(s) - smoking cessation , medicine , incentive , abstinence , randomized controlled trial , demography , psychiatry , pathology , economics , microeconomics , sociology
Smoking is the leading preventable cause of premature death in the United States. Previous studies of financial incentives for smoking cessation in work settings have not shown that such incentives have significant effects on cessation rates, but these studies have had limited power, and the incentives used may have been insufficient.

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