New Directions for Motivational Incentive Interventions for Smoking Cessation

Coughlin, Lara N. and Bonar, Erin E. and Walton, Maureen A. and Fernandez, Anne C. and Duguid, Isabelle and Nahum-Shani, Inbal (2022) New Directions for Motivational Incentive Interventions for Smoking Cessation. Frontiers in Digital Health, 4. ISSN 2673-253X

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Abstract

Background: Motivational incentive interventions are highly effective for smoking cessation. Yet, these interventions are not widely available to people who want to quit smoking, in part, due to barriers such as administrative burden, concern about the use of extrinsic reinforcement (i.e., incentives) to improve cessation outcomes, suboptimal intervention engagement, individual burden, and up-front costs.

Purpose: Technological advancements can mitigate some of these barriers. For example, mobile abstinence monitoring and digital, automated incentive delivery have the potential to lower the clinic burden associated with monitoring abstinence and administering incentives while also reducing the frequency of clinic visits. However, to fully realize the potential of digital technologies to deliver motivational incentives it is critical to develop strategies to mitigate longstanding concerns that reliance on extrinsic monetary reinforcement may hamper internal motivation for cessation, improve individual engagement with the intervention, and address scalability limitations due to the up-front cost of monetary incentives. Herein, we describe the state of digitally-delivered motivational incentives. We then build on existing principles for creating just-in-time adaptive interventions to highlight new directions in leveraging digital technology to improve the effectiveness and scalability of motivational incentive interventions.

Conclusions: Technological advancement in abstinence monitoring coupled with digital delivery of reinforcers has made the use of motivational incentives for smoking cessation increasingly feasible. We propose future directions for a new era of motivational incentive interventions that leverage technology to integrate monetary and non-monetary incentives in a way that addresses the changing needs of individuals as they unfold in real-time.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Oalibrary Press > Multidisciplinary
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 05 Jan 2023 07:06
Last Modified: 30 Mar 2024 03:46
URI: http://asian.go4publish.com/id/eprint/1307

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