Offering small financial incentives to smokers on surgery wait-lists was not found to significantly increase smoking cessation before surgery, according to a randomised feasibility trial at an Australian public hospital. Of the 620 participants, 21.9% registered to quit when offered a $a70 supermarket voucher, increasing to 32.6% with a $a140 incentive. However, the proportion of participants who successfully quit at least 24 hours before surgery was similar between the intervention and control groups. Therefore, a single offer of financial rewards for perioperative cessation was found to be feasible but did not achieve clinically significant quit differences.
Journal Article by Webb A, Coward L (…) Leong S et 2 al. in BMJ Open
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