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Financial incentives for abstinence among socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals in smoking cessation treatment

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  • Kendzor, D.E.
  • Businelle, M.S.
  • Poonawalla, I.B.
  • Cuate, E.L.
  • Kesh, A.
  • Rios, D.M.
  • Ma, P.
  • Balis, D.S.

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Objectives. We evaluated the effectiveness of offering adjunctive financial incentives for abstinence (contingency management [CM]) within a safety net hospital smoking cessation program. Methods. We randomized participants (n = 146) from a Dallas County, Texas, Tobacco Cessation Clinic from 2011 to 2013 to usual care (UC; cessation program; n = 71) or CM (UC + 4 weeks of financial incentives; n = 75), and followed from 1 week before the quit date through 4 weeks after the quit date. A subset (n = 128) was asked to attend a visit 12 weeks after the scheduled quit date. Results. Participants were primarily Black (62.3%) or White (28.1%) and female (57.5%). Most participants were uninsured (52.1%) and had an annual household income of less than $12 000 (55.5%). Abstinence rates were significantly higher for those assigned to CM than UC at all visits following the quit date (all Ps

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  • Kendzor, D.E. & Businelle, M.S. & Poonawalla, I.B. & Cuate, E.L. & Kesh, A. & Rios, D.M. & Ma, P. & Balis, D.S., 2015. "Financial incentives for abstinence among socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals in smoking cessation treatment," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 105(6), pages 1198-1205.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2014.302102_7
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302102
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    1. Matthew Taing & Bryce Kyburz & Isabel Martinez Leal & Kathy Le & Tzu-An Chen & Virmarie Correa-Fernandez & Teresa Williams & Daniel P. O’Connor & Ezemenari M. Obasi & Kathleen Casey & Litty Koshy & Lo, 2020. "Clinician Training in the Adaptation of a Comprehensive Tobacco-Free Workplace Program in Agencies Serving the Homeless and Vulnerably Housed," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(17), pages 1-15, August.
    2. Charlotta Pisinger & Cecilie Goltermann Toxværd & Mette Rasmussen, 2022. "Smoking Cessation Programs Are Less Effective in Smokers with Low Socioeconomic Status Even When Financial Incentives for Quitting Smoking Are Offered—A Community-Randomized Smoking Cessation Trial in," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(17), pages 1-15, August.
    3. Finkelstein, Eric A. & Bilger, Marcel & Baid, Drishti, 2019. "Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of incentives as a tool for prevention of non-communicable diseases: A systematic review," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 232(C), pages 340-350.
    4. Matthew D. Koslovsky & Michael D. Swartz & Wenyaw Chan & Luis Leon†Novelo & Anna V. Wilkinson & Darla E. Kendzor & Michael S. Businelle, 2018. "Bayesian variable selection for multistate Markov models with interval†censored data in an ecological momentary assessment study of smoking cessation," Biometrics, The International Biometric Society, vol. 74(2), pages 636-644, June.

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