How Much Do Cessation Benefits Cost?

How Much Do Cessation Benefits Cost? Are They Cost-Effective?

Tobacco cessation is more cost-effective than other common and covered disease prevention interventions, such as the treatment of hypertension and high blood cholesterol.
Cost analyses have shown tobacco cessation benefits to be either cost-saving or cost-neutral. Overall, cost/expenditure to employers equalizes at 3 years; benefits exceed costs by 5 years.
It costs between 10 and 40 cents per member per month to provide a comprehensive tobacco cessation benefit (costs vary based on utilization and dependent coverage).
In contrast, the annual cost of tobacco use is about $3,400 per smoker or about $7.18 for each pack of cigarettes sold.
Neonatal health care costs related to smoking are equivalent to $704 for each maternal smoker. Randomized controlled trials indicate that a smoking cessation program for pregnant women can save as much as $6 for each $1 spent.

HowShould Benefits Be Designed? Benefits for proven tobacco-use cessation treatments have been shown to increase treatment use and the number of successful quitters; therefore, both the Public Health Service-sponsored Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco...

Paying for tobacco use cessation treatments is the single most cost-effective health insurance benefit for adults that can be provided to employees. Smoking is costly to employers both in terms of smoking-related medical expenses...