ArticleBMJ open2018
'Secretly, it's a competition': a qualitative study investigating what helped employees quit smoking during a workplace smoking cessation group training programme with incentives.
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- How Financial Incentives Increase Smoking Cessation: A Two-Level Path Analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021Trial
- Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis of a work-place smoking cessation intervention with and without financial incentives.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2020Trial
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- Piloting a complex intervention to promote a tobacco and alcohol-free pregnancy: the Smoke and Alcohol Free with EHealth and Rewards (SAFER) pregnancy study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Factors Influencing Implementation of a Workplace Tobacco Cessation Intervention in India: A Qualitative Exploration.Workplace health & safety · 2021Article
- Innovative call emerging from a qualitative study for workplace designated stop-smoking area.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2020Article
- How can vulnerable groups be recruited to participate in a community-based smoking cessation program and perceptions of effective elements: A qualitative study among participants and professionals.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2020Article
- The Association of Peer Smoking Behavior and Social Support with Quit Success in Employees Who Participated in a Smoking Cessation Intervention at the Workplace.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- The association of financial incentives for low density lipoprotein cholesterol reduction with patient activation and motivation.Preventive medicine reports · 2019Article
- Engaging and supporting young adults in smoking cessation: Insights from a mobile-based cessation program in China.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
objectivesSmoking cessation programmes in combination with financial incentives have shown to increase quit rates in smokers, but it is not clear which elements of this intervention help smokers to succeed in their quit attempt. The aim of this study was to explore the view of successful and unsuccessful quitters about which factors had affected their ability to quit smoking.
designSemistructured qualitative interviews were conducted and analysed using the Framework method.
settingInterviews were conducted in 2017 with employees from nine different Dutch companies.
participants24 successful and unsuccessful quitters from the intervention group of a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) who participated in a workplace smoking cessation group training programme in which smoking abstinence was rewarded with financial incentives.
resultsThemes that emerged were the workplace setting, quitting with colleagues, motivation, family support, strategies and the financial incentives. The interviewees reported that the smoking cessation programme was appreciated in general, was convenient, lowered the threshold to sign up, stimulated peer support and competition and provided strategies to resist smoking. Personal motivation and a mind set to never smoke again were regarded as important factors for quit success. The financial incentives were not considered as a main motivator to quit smoking, which contradicts the results from the RCT. The financial incentives were considered as more attractive to smokers with a low income.
conclusionsAccording to participants, contributors to quitting smoking were the workplace cessation programme, personal motivation and peer support, but not the incentives. More research is needed on the contradiction between the perceived effects of financial incentives on quit success and the actual difference in quit rates. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NTR5657.
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