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Is N-O-T Cost Effective?
N-O-T has been proven cost-effective through a research study conducted in 2007.1
Because schools and communities often have limited resources to promote health, a program to help students stop smoking needs to be good value for the money. Therefore, researchers studied N O T in schools and compared its cost effectiveness with the cost effectiveness of a brief intervention (20 minutes of advice plus widely available quit-smoking pamphlets).
The study1 predicted that teens who completed the N-O-T program would have a 7-year longer life expectancy on average than would teens who completed the brief intervention. The study also showed that the average financial cost for each additional year of life expectancy for those completing N-O-T rather than the brief intervention was $442.65.
To put this dollar figure in perspective, health economists consider that any amount less than $10,000 per life year gained is cost effective and desirable. Therefore, the study results show that N-O-T is good value for the money. In fact, the study found that N-O-T was as cost-effective as a school-based program to prevent tobacco use and was probably more cost effective than programs to help adults stop smoking.
1Dino G, Horn K, Branstetter S, Kalsekar I, Abdullkadri A. Cost-effectiveness analysis of the Not On Tobacco program for adolescent smoking cessation. Prevention Science. 2008 Mar;9(1):38-46. Available at: http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/som/eNews/archives/08/Mar/pdfs/fulltext.pdf
