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February 12, 2009

Paying Smokers To Quit Pays Off »

University of Pennsylvania researchers published the results of a smoking cessation study in this week’s New England Journal Of Medicine which showed that people who were given financial incentives to quit smoking were more successful. One group (442 workers) received information about smoking cessation, while a second group (436 workers) got the same information, in addition to financial incentives comprising of $100 if they completed the program, $250 dollars if they quit within 6 months of enrolling in the study, and $400 dollars if they abstained from smoking for an additional 6 months. Not only did the incentive group show greater rates of enrollment, after 18 months of quitting more ex-smokers from the incentive group remained smoke-free.

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Posted by Steven / February 12, 2009 7:49 pm / Permalink / Comments (7) / Trackbacks (0)