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Brief report
Telephone assistance for smoking cessation: one year cost effectiveness estimations
  1. A L McAlister1,
  2. V Rabius2,
  3. A Geiger2,
  4. T J Glynn2,
  5. P Huang3,
  6. R Todd2
  1. 1Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
  2. 2American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  3. 3Bureau of Chronic Disease and Tobacco Prevention, Texas Department of Health, Austin, Texas, USA
  1. Correspondence to:
 A McAlister
 PhD, Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7000 Fannin, Suite 2550, Houston, TX 77030, USA; amcalistersph.uth.tmc.edu

Abstract

A randomised trial evaluated the American Cancer Society’s telephone counselling service to assist smoking cessation. Counselling nearly doubles a smokers’ odds of quitting and maintaining cessation for one year. The estimated cost for each case of maintained smoking cessation attributable to counselling availability is approximately $1300.

  • cessation
  • telephone assistance
  • cost effectiveness

https://doi.org/10.1136/tc.2003.004515

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