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Smoking Cessation Stats
General Facts
February-2009
Ready to Quit SmokingLos Angeles Times
Nearly 1 in 5 Americans are at least occasional smokers, risking cancer, heart disease and a shortened life span.
February-2009
Money Talks: Cash Rewards Help People Stop SmokingBloomberg.com.
Getting one person to stop smoking can save businesses about $3,400 a year by boosting productivity, decreasing absenteeism and reducing illnesses, according to estimates from the.
January-2009
TOBACCO USE: Targeting the Nation’s Leading Killer At A Glance 2009
Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States.
July-2008
U.S. Smoking Rate Still Coming DownGallup.com
Two in three current smokers consider themselves "addicted" to cigarettes.
74% of smokers say they would like to give up smoking but have not.
April-2004
Employers and Smoking Cessation, California Tobacco Control Alliance
According to the CDC smoking is the lead preventable cause of death in the United states
According to the CDC Smoking is also one of the costliest medical conditions, with an estimated annual cost of $3,400 per smoker per year
75% percent of people who smoke want to quit
Impact on Productivity
November-2008
Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Productivity Losses—United States, 2000-2004 CDC
Estimates for average annual smoking-attributable productivity losses were approximately $96.8 billion ($64.2 billion for males and $32.6 billion for females) during 2000-2004
November-2007
Smoking in the United States WorkforcePhizer facts
Smoking reduces productivity and therefore impacts the bottom line. Smokers have almost twice the absenteeism (6.0 workdays per year) of never-smokers (those who have never smoked) (3.2 workdays per year) and present twice the work limitations compared with never-smokers (6% vs. 3%).
Smoking is associated with reduced productivity. Absenteeism and work limitations (ie, workers who report being unable or limited in the kind or amount of work they can do because of a physical, mental, or emotional problem) are higher in current smokers than in former smokers, and higher in former smokers than in neversmokers.
April-2007
Tobacco ControlA BMJ specialty journal.
In both the civilian and military sectors, smoking has been linked to disability and job-related outcomes, including decreased productivity, increased absenteeism, and long and more frequent work breaks
Compared with never-smokers, daily smokers at entry into the U.S. Navy had subsequent career outcomes consistently indicating poorer job performance (e.g., early attrition prior to serving a full-term enlistment, more likely to have a less-than-honorable discharge, more demotions and desertions, lower achieved pay-grade and less likely to re-enlist.
December-2006
Smoking Cessation: Additional benefits to quitting and risk factors for failing to quitYale School of Public Health
Smokers had, as expected, more absences. While we hypothesized that quitting would reduce absences, we found that those who quit within the last year, and especially in the last three months, had a greater probability of missing work than even current smokers. As the time since quitting increased, absences declined to a rate somewhere between those who never smoked and current smokers.
October-2006
Effect of Smoking Status on Productivity loss Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine2006-10-01 Volume 48(10) p 1099-1108
Current smokers missed more days of work and experienced more unproductive time at work compared with former smokers and nonsmokers. The average annual cost for lost productivity for nonsmokers was $2623/year compared with $3246/year for former smokers and $4430/year for current smokers. More than half the costs were due to unproductive time at work
August-2006
Business Costs in Smoke-filled Environments
Nationally, Employees that smoke have almost twice as much lost production time per week than workers who do not smoke - a cost of $27 billion in productivity losses for employers nationwide
June-2005
Impact of smoking status on workplace absenteeism and productivity
Compared to current smokers, former smokers were more productive for 7 of the 10 categories. The difference in productivity for former smokers (as compared to current smokers) ranged from improvement of 19% to worsening of approximately 6%.s
2005
Focus on Smoking and Health ResearchJ.H. Owing
While at work, smokers take an average of 3 smoking breaks a day, each lasting of 13 minutes, resulting in 39 minutes of lost productivity per smoker per day. Assuming a 40 hour work week, cumulative on-the-job productivity loss from smoking breaks translates to 21 working days per smoker per year.
2004
The Economic Burden of Smoking in California13 Tobacco Control 264
One study on the costs of smoking shows that in California in 1999, the indirect costs due to lost productivity from smoking-related illnesses were $1.5 billion
2003
Reducing the Burden of Smoking on Employee Health and ProductivityNational Business Group on Health, 2003
Male smokers miss an average of 4 more workdays than male non-smokers.
Female smokers miss an average of 2 more workdays than female non-smokers.
January-2001
Impact of smoking status on workplace absenteeism and productivityTobacco Control
Workplace productivity is increased and absenteeism is decreased among former smokers as compared to current smokers. Productivity among former smokers increases over time toward values seen among never smokers.
2000
Tobacco Public Policy center http://www.law.capital.edu/Tobacco/workplace/costs_smoking.html
According to the American Cancer Society, Cigarette smokers are absent from work 6.5 days per year more than nonsmokers.
Approximately 8% of a smoker's working hours are spent on smoking.
Impact on Health
January-2008
CDC Fact sheet
Smoking causes about 90% of lung cancer deaths in men and almost 80% of lung cancer deaths in women. The risk of dying from lung cancer is more than 23 times higher among men who smoke cigarettes, and about 13 times higher among women who smoke cigarettes compared with never smokers.
Smoking causes coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States. Cigarette smokers are 2-4 times more likely to develop coronary heart disease than nonsmokers.
Cigarette smoking approximately doubles a person's risk for stroke
Cigarette smoking is associated with a tenfold increase in the risk of dying from chronic obstructive lung disease. About 90% of all deaths from chronic obstructive lung diseases are attributable to cigarette smoking
April-2008
CDC Fact sheet
People who stop smoking greatly reduce their risk of dying prematurely. Benefits are greater for people who stop at earlier ages, but cessation is beneficial at all ages.
Smoking cessation lowers the risk for lung and other types of cancer. The risk for developing cancer declines with the number of years of smoking cessation.
Risk or coronary heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease is reduced after smoking cessation. Coronary heart disease risk is substantially reduced within 1 to 2 years of cessation.
Cessation reduces respiratory symptoms, such as coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. The rate of decline in lung function is slower among persons who quit smoking.
Woman who stop smoking before or during pregnancy reduce their risk for adverse reproductive outcomes such as infertility or having a low-birth-weight baby
Use of Incentives
February-2009
Financial Incentives may improve smoking cessation Modern Medicine
A recent study by the New England Journal of Medicine found that using financial incentives resulted in higher rate of smoking cessation for those incented vs. those not incented (14.7% vs. 5%).
February-2009
Financial Incentives can help smokers quit
A study from the New England Journal of Medicine rewarded General Electric employees for incremental milestones — $100 for completing a smoking-cessation class, another $250 for being smoke-free after six months and $400 more for being smoke-free after a year. The incentives paid for themselves in about 3 years.
Study shows that smokers who earn financial incentives are three times more likely than others to kick the habit.
