Journal article
Health care costs among smokers, former smokers and never smokers in an HMO
Health services research, Vol.38(2), pp.733-749
04/01/2003
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.00142
PMCID: PMC1360912
PMID: 12785570
Abstract
Using a retrospective cohort study of HMO enrollees, researchers estimated long-term health care costs of former smokers compared with continuing and never smokers. The researchers studied the trend in cost for former smokers over seven years after they quit to assess how the cessation experience impacts total health care cost. It was found that former smokers' costs are significantly greater in the year immediately following cessation relative to continuing smokers, but former smokers' costs fall in year two. This decrease remains throughout the six-year follow-up period. The evidence suggests that smoking cessation does not increase long-term health care risks.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Health care costs among smokers, former smokers and never smokers in an HMO
- Creators
- Paul Fishman - Group Health CooperativeZeba KahnElla ThompsonSusan Curry
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Health services research, Vol.38(2), pp.733-749
- DOI
- 10.1111/1475-6773.00142
- PMID
- 12785570
- PMCID
- PMC1360912
- NLM abbreviation
- Health Serv Res
- ISSN
- 0017-9124
- eISSN
- 1475-6773
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2003
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Community and Behavioral Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984366375202771
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