Smoking Cessation Is Associated With Lower Indirect Costs

Objective: This study quantified differences in indirect costs due to decreased work productivity between current and former smokers. Former smokers were further categorized by number of years since quitting to assess corresponding differences. Methods: Data on employed individuals were obtained from the 2013 US National Health and Wellness Survey (NHWS; N = 75,000). Indirect costs were calculated for current smokers and former smokers from weekly wages based on age and sex. Results: The annual total indirect costs for current smokers were $1327.53, $1560.18, and $1839.87 higher than for those who quit 0 to 4 years, 5 to 10 years, and more than or equal to 11 years prior, respectively. There were no significant differences in mean total indirect costs between the former smoker groups. Conclusions: Current smokers showed significantly higher total annual indirect costs compared with former smokers, independently of the number of years since quitting smoking.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

• Publication date

  2018-02-19

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1097/JOM.0000000000001302PMID 29465514PMCID 5991186
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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