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Background: Incentives, usually as cash or as vouchers, are widely used to encourage smokers to try to quit, and to reward them if they succeed. Such schemes can be run in workplaces, in clinics, and sometimes as community programmes. For this third update of our review we now include studies in pregnant women. Another change is that we have separated ...

Background The workplace appears to be a useful setting for helping people to stop smoking. Large groups of smokers are available who can easily be reached and helped, using proven methods. It is also in the employers’ interests to improve the health of their workforce. Recent changes introducing anti-smoking laws in many developed countries may have ...

Nicotine is the main addictive component in tobacco. When a person smokes a cigarette, nicotine causes chemicals in the brain to be released, which gives a feeling of reward to the smoker. This reward is part of the reason why people keep smoking. Nicotine vaccines are designed to work by reducing the effects of nicotine on the brain, meaning the smoker ...