Pilot Study of Contingency Management for Smoking Cessation

Contingency management is a behavioural intervention based on the principals of operant conditioning that is widely used in the addictions field. At the most basic level, contingency management works by providing rewards as reinforcement for desired behaviours. In the current study, the desired behaviours are either attendance at the clinic and abstinence from tobacco smoking, or just attendance at the clinic, dependent on the arm of the trial that participants are randomised to. Participants in the experimental condition will receive shopping vouchers for attending the clinic and providing a breath CO recording of \<10ppm. Participants in the control condition will receive shopping vouchers for attending the clinic, regardless of their breath CO recording results.