It’s hard to stop smoking, but financial incentives can give workers the extra push they need to kick the habit. Amanda Graham, Ph.D., senior vice president of Innovations, weighs in on the impact of incentives to help employees quit. 

Online social networks are becoming an increasingly prevalent strategy for public health and other stakeholders to cut down unhealthy behaviors, such as postpartum weight loss and smoking cessation. A unique benefit of an online social network is it brings people together in a way to support each other that no other treatment modality is capable of accomplishing.