Cash is the strongest incentive to quit smoking

Forget doing it for your pets. New research suggests offering cold hard cash is the strongest incentive for smokers to kick their dirty habit.

In the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 9000 General Electric employees across the US were recruited for the study, with half of them offered $750 to quit smoking, reports HealthDay News.

After a year, 14.7% of the smokers who were offered cash had stayed healthy, while only 5% of the control group who weren’t paid had managed to stay smoke-free.

Between 15 and 18 months after the study's start, 9.4% of those in the incentive group remained smoke-free, compared to just 3.6% in the control group.

The smokers offered a cash reward were told they would receive $100 for the completion of the smoking cessation program, an additional $250 if they successfully quit smoking within six months from the start of the study, and an additional $400 if they stayed smoke-free for another six months.

"Incentives do work in changing health behaviors, and they can be successful in people who have not succeeded using other approaches in the past," study author Dr. Kevin Volpp, director of the Center for Health Incentives at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Wharton School in Philadelphia said to HealthDay News.

While a 15% success rate may not seem particularly, well, successful, it’s still much higher than the results of typical efforts to stop smoking.

"Only about 2% to 3% of smokers quit each year," Thomas Glynn, director of cancer science and trends and international cancer control for the American Cancer Society said to HealthDay News.

This statistic must gnaw away at the 70% of people who smoke yet say they want to quit, with 5000 New Zealanders dying every year from smoking – and dying 14 years earlier than if they had not smoked.

Dr Volpp said he believes financial incentives prodded more people to quit and stay off cigarettes because of the positive feedback as well as immediate gratification.

"I think, in general, people have a lot of trouble making changes for the sake of delayed health benefits," Dr Volpp said to HealthDay News.

"This study shows the power that a monetary incentive can offer, and the power of the workplace as a health promotion tool," said Mr Glynn.

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Now that packets of cigarettes cost over $10 each you are being financially incentivised just by not purchasing them - in my case it was $90 per week. Still it requires you to be motivated by that amount doesn''t it? It wasn't a major incentive for me but I quit anyway without gum, patches whatever just because I was about to be a grandparent and felt I needed to stay alive longer just like I did when our child was about 10. The prospect of leaving her an orphan was sufficient incentive to stop (but that ceased to bother me when she was grown up!) hence the need to do it again.

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I believe that the statistics they provided was made to look that way to justify the "sin taxes" that they lay on people who are both physically and mentally addicted to cigarettes. Just a bunch of hogwash. Why do I have this attitude?

I have spent thousands trying to quit a 25 year habit over the last 20 years of it. I tried the cessation classes and courses, I tried the gum, the patches, Geeze, I even went through 9 sessions of hypnosis trying to quit. I also know many others who went through the same thing.

Now, about 96 days ago, I bought my first e cigarette here http://www.ecigarettesnational.com and have yet to smoke another tobacco cigarette. I thought it may have been a fluke, so I bought another and gave it to my Mom, who had smoked over 42 years and she is still smoke free after 52 days, and I know her struggles. We also gave one to my wifes grandpaw around the same time, and he is tobacco free and feeling much better and he smoked over 50 years and could not quit before the e cigarette. An employee of mine quit, and her Dad quit with them also, and he had faced to bouts of throat cancer.

I have given away 6 e cigarette kits and every one of them has quit smoking regular tobacco.

The cessation market is a 2.6 Billion a year market, they do not want success, and to date, there has been nothing that really worked before the e cigarette. RJ and the other big tobacco companies bring them in and the pharma keeps them hanging while million die each year.

If you do some research, you will see how far the rabbit hole goes. If politicians really wanted to end this, they would outlaw tobacco, but they havent, because that "sin tax" is a lot of money to play with and neither the pharma or tobacco industry wants and end to it.

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I think this is an excellent idea. Is there anything similar in Britain? I'd take a guess there isn't. I think the Tobacco Lords should pay those trying to stop!

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Smokers already know that they could save a lot more than 750.00 per year if they stopped smoking and it does not make most of them quit. I don't know if this is enough incentive or not. I think it would have to be a lot more money than that for some of them.

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