One-Session Worksite Smoking-Cessation and Discouragement

Abstract

A one-session smoking-cessation workshop was offered in conjunction with a self-help manual and smoking discouragement program to 9 employees of a coal transfer company located south of New Orleans. The workshop consisted of 1 ½ hours of lecture in which the participants agreed to sign a contract stating that they would not smoke for six months. Participants also agreed to put up a financial incentive that was matched by the company to be paid to those individuals who went 6 mo. without smoking. The smoking-discouragement program consisted of the placement of humorous antismoking posters throughout the worksite emphasizing the advantages of quitting. Three of the 9 participants were still not smoking at a 6-mo. follow-up. The relatively low cost involved in this study indicates that such an approach to smoking-cessation at the worksite is quite cost effective.

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