ArticleJournal of occupational and environmental medicine2018
Smoking Cessation Is Associated With Lower Indirect Costs.
Article in Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Present but Overlooked: A Scoping Review of Instruments and Approaches for Measuring Presenteeism Related to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drug Use.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Review
- The economic burden of smoking in Belgium: incremental healthcare costs and lost productivity.European journal of public health · 2025Article
- Productivity costs of lifelong smoking-the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 study.European journal of public health · 2024Article
- Hospital length of stay and readmission after elective surgery: a comparison of current and former smokers with non-smokers.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Concerns regarding the consequences of Nicotex for smoking and tobacco chewing cessation.Journal of education and health promotion · 2024Article
- A Provider - Patient Relationship: The Critical First Step of Smoking Cessation.Journal of general internal medicine · 2020Article
- Gender Differences in Labour Losses Associated with Smoking-Related Mortality.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study quantified differences in indirect costs due to decreased work productivity between current and former smokers. Former smokers were further categorized by number of years since quitting to assess corresponding differences.
methodsData on employed individuals were obtained from the 2013 US National Health and Wellness Survey (NHWS; N = 75,000). Indirect costs were calculated for current smokers and former smokers from weekly wages based on age and sex.
resultsThe annual total indirect costs for current smokers were $1327.53, $1560.18, and $1839.87 higher than for those who quit 0 to 4 years, 5 to 10 years, and more than or equal to 11 years prior, respectively. There were no significant differences in mean total indirect costs between the former smoker groups.
conclusionsCurrent smokers showed significantly higher total annual indirect costs compared with former smokers, independently of the number of years since quitting smoking.
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