ArticleThe Lancet regional health. Western Pacific2021
Active referral plus a small financial incentive upon cessation services use on smoking abstinence: a community-based, cluster-randomised controlled trial.
Article in The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03565796 (Building Capacity and Promoting Smoking Cessation in the Community Via "Quit to Win" Contest 2018), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers.
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Building Capacity and Promoting Smoking Cessation in the Community Via "Quit to Win" Contest 2018: a Single-blind Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial on Brief Intervention (AWARD), Active Referral and Financial Incentive for Attending Smoking Cessation (SC) Service to Increase Abstinence
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Evidence-based brief cessation advice plus active referral for emergency department patients who smoke: a single-arm, real-world clinical trial.BMC medicine · 2025Trial
- Effect of Adding Personalized Instant Messaging Apps to a Brief Smoking Cessation Model in Community Smokers in Hong Kong: Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Trial
- Smoking Cessation Programs Are Less Effective in Smokers with Low Socioeconomic Status Even When Financial Incentives for Quitting Smoking Are Offered-A Community-Randomized Smoking Cessation Trial in Denmark.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
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- Chatbot-Led Support Combined With Counselor-Led Support on Smoking Cessation in China: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Contingency Management for Drug Use Disorders: Meta-Analysis and Application of Tolin's Criteria.Clinical psychology : a publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association · 2024Article
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- How and why do financial incentives contribute to helping people stop smoking? A realist review.BMC public health · 2024Review
- Mobile Phone-Based Personalized and Interactive Augmented Reality Pictorial Health Warnings for Enhancing a Brief Advice Model for Smoking Cessation: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR XR and spatial computing · 2024Article
- Experiences of quitting smoking in prisons: A qualitative study of people in custody.Tobacco induced diseases · 2024Article
- Effect of smoking-related COVID-19 risk messaging on smoking cessation in community smokers: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial.Tobacco induced diseases · 2023Article
- Associations of changes in smoking-related practices with quit attempt and smoking consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods study.Tobacco induced diseases · 2022Article
- High Perceived Susceptibility to and Severity of COVID-19 in Smokers Are Associated with Quitting-Related Behaviors.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Engaging and supporting young adults in smoking cessation: Insights from a mobile-based cessation program in China.Digital healthArticle
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9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundMany smokers do not use existing free or low-cost smoking cessation services, cost-effective interventions to increase use are needed.
methodsWe did a 2-armed cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT) in Hong Kong, China, to evaluate the effectiveness of active referral plus a small financial incentive on abstinence. Chinese adult smokers who smoked at least 1 cigarette per day were proactively recruited from 70 community sites (clusters). Random allocation was concealed until the recruitment started. The intervention group received an offer of active referral to cessation services at baseline plus an incentive (HK$300/US$38) after using any cessation services within 3 months. The control group received general brief cessation advice. The primary outcomes were biochemically validated abstinence at 3 and 6 months. Operating costs in real-world implementation was calculated. Trial Registry: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03565796.
findingsBetween June and September 2018, 1093 participants were randomly assigned to the intervention (n=563) and control (n=530) groups. By intention-to-treat, the intervention group showed higher validated abstinence than the control group at 3 months (8.4% vs. 4.5%, risk ratio [RR] 1.88, 95% CI 1.01-3.51,
interpretationThis cRCT has first shown that a simple, brief, and low-cost intervention with active referral plus a small monetary incentive was effective in increasing smoking abstinence and smoking cessation service use in community smokers.
fundingHong Kong Council on Smoking and Health.
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