Paying Smokers to Quit: Does It Work? Should We Do It?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 786-788

  Ladapo, Joseph A ^a,b   Prochaska, Judith J ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

contingency management; financial incentives; nicotine; tobacco use disorder

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; FINANCIAL INCENTIVE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MOTIVATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SMOKING CESSATION; SWITZERLAND; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; SMOKING;

MOTIVATION; SMOKERS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 84990180470     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.04.067     Document Type: Editorial

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