Specific Aim I: Compare the efficacy and effectiveness of 4 financial incentive structures for improving "quit rates" (rates of prolonged smoking abstinence for 6 months): (a) individual financial rewards, (b) individual deposit contracts, (c) cooperative rewards, and (d) competitive deposit contracts
H1: Compared with usual care, all 4 incentive structures will increase quit rates significantly.
H2: Compared with individual financial rewards of equivalent size and schedule, individual deposit contracts, cooperative rewards, and competitive contracts will each increase quit rates significantly.
H3: Group-oriented structures will increase quit rates significantly more than individual-oriented structures.
Specific Aim II: Compare smokers' acceptance of these 4 financial incentive structures for smoking cessation
H4: Uptake rates of reward-based structures will be higher than of structures involving deposit contracts.
H5: Uptake rates of group-oriented structures will be higher than of individual-oriented structures.
Specific Aim III: Identify individual characteristics that modify incentive structures' efficacy and acceptance
H6: Incentives will promote relatively greater quit rates among participants with fewer substitute reinforcers.
H7: Incentives will promote relatively greater quit rates among participants with lower incomes.
H8: Higher-income persons will be relatively more likely to accept incentives requiring deposit contracts.
