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Association Between Smoking Cessation Treatment and Healthcare Costs in a Single-Payer Public Healthcare System.

Dolly O BaliunasSabrina VociClaire de OliveiraPeter L SelbyPaul KurdyakLaura C RosellaLaurie ZawertailoLongdi FuRinku Sutradhar
Published in: Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (2022)
The clinical effectiveness of pharmacological and behavioral smoking cessation treatments is well established, but whether such treatments are associated with healthcare costs, using real-world data, has received limited attention. Our findings suggest that the use of a smoking cessation treatment offered by their health system is associated with persistent higher healthcare costs among males but a transient increase among females. Given increasing access to evidence-based smoking cessation treatments is an important component in national tobacco control strategies, these data highlight the need for further exploration of the relations between smoking cessation treatment engagement and healthcare costs.
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