ArticleAmerican journal of public health2005
Free nicotine replacement therapy programs vs implementing smoke-free workplaces: a cost-effectiveness comparison.
Article in American journal of public health, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Medical costs and quality-adjusted life years associated with smoking: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2016Pooled it
- Workplace interventions for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
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- Influence of Disclosed and Undisclosed Funding Sources in Tobacco Harm Reduction Discourse: A Social Network Analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023Review
- Social and racial inequalities in diabetes and cancer in the United States.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Understanding Hesitation to Use Nicotine Replacement Therapy: A Content Analysis of Posts in Online Tobacco-Cessation Support Groups.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2023Article
- Financial benefit of a smoking cessation program prior to elective colorectal surgery.The Journal of surgical research · 2017Article
- The Economic Impact of Smoking and of Reducing Smoking Prevalence: Review of Evidence.Tobacco use insights · 2015Review
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- A review of economic evaluations of tobacco control programs.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2009Review
- The impact of a communitywide smoke-free ordinance on smoking among older adults.Preventing chronic disease · 2009Article
- Cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation to prevent age-related macular degeneration.Cost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E · 2008Article
- Preference-weighted health-related quality of life measures and substance use disorder severity.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2008Article
- The social determinants of cancer: a challenge for transdisciplinary science.American journal of preventive medicine · 2008Article
- Smokefree environments in Latin America: on the road to real change?Prevention and control : the official journal of the World Heart Federation · 2008Article
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Abstract
We compared the cost-effectiveness of a free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) program with a statewide smoke-free workplace policy in Minnesota. We conducted 1-year simulations of costs and benefits. The number of individuals who quit smoking and the quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) were the measures of benefits. After 1 year, a NRT program generated 18,500 quitters at a cost of 7020 dollars per quitter (4440 dollars per QALY), and a smoke-free workplace policy generated 10,400 quitters at a cost of 799 dollars per quitter (506 dollars per QALY). Smoke-free work-place policies are about 9 times more cost-effective per new nonsmoker than free NRT programs are. Smoke-free workplace policies should be a public health funding priority, even when the primary goal is to promote individual smoking cessation.
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