Competitions and incentives for smoking cessation

Journal article

Background: Background: Material or financial incentives may be used in an attempt to reinforce behaviour change, including smoking cessation. They have been widely used in workplace smoking cessation programmes, and to a lesser extent within community programmes. Quit and Win contests are the subject of a companion review. Objectives: To determine whether competitions and incentives lead to higher long-term quit rates. We also set out to examine the relationship between incentives and partic...

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Authors: Cahill, K; Perera, R

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: COCHRANE DATABASE OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
• Issue: 4
• Publication date: 2011-01-01
• DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004307.pub4
• ISSN: 1469-493X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Smoking Cessation [methods; psychology]; Motivation; Health Promotion [methods]; Humans; Reward; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic