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Trial reportAnnals of the American Thoracic Society2019

Financial Incentives Promote Smoking Cessation Directly, Not by Increasing Use of Cessation Aids.

Michael O Harhay, Andrea B Troxel, Christine Brophy, Kathryn Saulsgiver, Kevin G Volpp, Scott D Halpern

Abstract readLetterRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2026
    Pooled it
  2. Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025
    Pooled it
  3. Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025
    Pooled it
  4. Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024
    Pooled it
  5. Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022
    Pooled it
  6. Partner-Involved Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation in Dual-Smoker Couples: A Randomized Pilot Trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024
    Trial
  7. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Michael O Harhay1 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.ORCID 0000-0002-0553-674X
Andrea B Troxel2 New York University New York, New York.
Christine Brophy3 The Vitality Institute New York, New York and.
Kathryn Saulsgiver1 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kevin G Volpp1 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Scott D Halpern1 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Funding

Improving the measurement and analysis of long-term, patient-centered outcomes following acute respiratory failureK99HL141678 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HARHAY, MICHAEL OSCAR · 2018 to 2019
$214k
NHLBI NIH HHS K99 HL141678
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

MotivationRewardAdultFemaleHealth PromotionHumansMaleMiddle AgedPennsylvaniaSmokingSmoking CessationSmoking PreventionTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID30290121
PMCPMC6376943

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