title: Helping smokers quit improves health and budgets.
abstract: (1) Treatment of smoking-related illnesses accounts for about 11 percent of Medicaid expenditures. (2) As of 2014, seven states provide comprehensive tobacco-cessation coverage to Medicaid enrollees, including individual counseling, group counseling, and seven types of U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved medications. (3) Without assistance from medication or other forms of help, around 4 percent to 7 percent of quit attempts are successful; with tobacco-cessation medication use, the success rate is 25 percent.
authors.forename: Bryan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kelley
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling; D035082:Federal Government; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage; D008484:Medicaid; D009042:Motivation; D010349:Patient Compliance; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000628:therapy*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology; D013219:State Government; D061485:Tobacco Use Cessation Devices / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D014481:United States