Apart from counselling and pharmacotherapy, strategies such as financial interventions could help smokers quit.
We found eight trials involving financial interventions directed at smokers and two trials directed at health care providers.
Providing full financial benefits (covering all the costs of treatment) to smokers when compared to no financial benefits increased the proportion quitting smoking, quit attempts and utilization of drug treatment by smokers. Although the absolute differences in quitting were small, the costs per quitter were low. We did not find a difference in effect between full and partial financial benefits in increasing the use of smoking cessation treatment or abstinence from smoking. Financial benefits extended to health care providers increased the use of behavioural interventions for smoking cessation.