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Table 1 Internet search findings for UK incentive schemes for smoking cessation in pregnancy as of 19th November 2012

From: Financial incentives for smoking cessation in pregnancy: protocol for a single arm intervention study

Scheme name

Location

Status

Country

Funding

Incentive details

Smoking verification method

URL as source

Give it up for baby

Dundee

Active

UK

NHS

£12.50 grocery vouchers per week over 1 year

CO testing

http://www.gwumc.edu/sphhs/departments/pch/phcm/casesjournal/volume3/showcase/cases_3_09.pdf

Accessed 19 November 2012

http://www.nsmcentre.org.uk/sites/default/files/Give%20It%20Up%20For%20Baby%20FULL%20case%20study.pdf Accessed 19 November 2012

Healthy incentive schemes

Birmingham

Completed

UK

NHS

Up to £140 shopping vouchers over 1 year.

CO testing

http://www.stopsmokinglive.org/2010/posters/dave_jones.html Accessed 19 November 2012

Voucher Incentive Scheme

Yeovil & Torbay District Hospitals & Gloucester Royal Hospital

Completed

UK

NHS

Up to £200 in pharmacy vouchers over 1 year.

CO testing

http://www.uknscc.org/2010_UKNSCC/presentations/elaine_watson.html - Accessed 19 November 2012

Significant Other Supporters (SOS)

Yorkshire and Humber Piloted in 12 stop-smoking services

Completed

UK

NHS

Up to £200 in shopping vouchers over 1 year

CO testing

http://smoking-quit.info/mothers-paid-to-quit-cigarettes Accessed 19 November 2012

 

The North East Essex (Colchester)

Completed

UK

NHS

Up to £100 grocery vouchers over 1 year

CO testing

http://www.uk.coop/pressrelease/food-vouchers-incentive-pregnant-smokers - Accessed 18 March 2013

The Cessation in Pregnancy Incentives Trial (CPIT)

Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Active

UK

Chief Scientist Office Scottish Government (sponsored by the NHS)

Up to £400 in shopping vouchers for abstinence up to 34 to 38 weeks gestation

CO testing and urine test (for final payment)

http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN87508788/ - Accessed 19 November 2012

Trial protocol available at http://www.trialsjournal.com/content/13/1/113 Accessed 19 November 2012

HERS (Health Enhancement Reward scheme)

West Suffolk (Bury St Edmunds and Sudbury)

Completed

UK

NHS

Up to £120 in vouchers (£10 per month) for baby products, beauty treatments and cinema tickets.

CO testing

Health Enhancement Reward Scheme (HERS) Project Evaluation - UCS Full Report January 2010

       

http://www.suffolk.nhs.uk/Home/Publications/20092010.aspx Accessed 19 November 2012