Background: Economic theory provides the philosophical foundation for valuing costs in judging medical and public health interventions. When evaluating smoking cessation interventions, accurate data on costs are essential for understanding resource consumption. Smoking cessation interventions,...

Background: Model-based analyses, conducted within a decision analytic framework, provide a systematic way to combineinformation about the natural history of disease and effectiveness of clinical management strategies with demographic andepidemiological characteristics of the population. Among...