Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Contract for Smoking Cessation

• Tác giả: Xavier Gine
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 641.46 Pickling, brining, smoking
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 300865
• Chủ đề: 1. Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis D120; 2. Economic Development: Human Resources; 3. Health Production I120; 4. Human Development; 5. Income Distribution

Tóm tắt

 We designed and tested a voluntary commitment product to help smokers quit smoking. The product (CARES) offered smokers a savings account in which they deposit funds for six months, after which they take a urine test for nicotine and cotinine. If they pass, their money is returned
  otherwise, their money is forfeited to charity. Of smokers offered CARES, 11 percent took up, and smokers randomly offered CARES were 3 percentage points more likely to pass the 6-month test than the control group. More importantly, this effect persisted in surprise tests at 12 months, indicating that CARES produced lasting smoking cessation.