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April 28, 2025Public Health ResearchOpen Access

Cost-effectiveness of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation at homeless support centres: SCeTCH cRCT

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JLJinshuo LiQWQi WuSPSteve Parrott

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Overview

Randomised controlled trial shows e-cigarettes are more costly for smoking cessation in homeless settings, indicating need for economic evaluation.

Key Points

  • To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of e-cigarettes versus usual care for smoking cessation in homeless support centres.
  • Conducted a multicentre two-arm cluster randomised controlled trial
  • Participants included adults aged 18+ who smoked daily
  • Intervention group received e-cigarette starter kits and e-liquids; control group received usual care
  • Mean intervention costs were estimated at £92 per participant
  • E-cigarette group had mean total costs of £3859, usual care £2716
  • Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was £181,000 per quality-adjusted life-year gain

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Li et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69255726c0ce034ddc35a54ahttps://doi.org/10.3310/gjld2428
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