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. 2013 Mar 14;15(3):e57. doi: 10.2196/jmir.2059

Table 2.

Mean annual costsa per participant in the MTC, MT, and UC groups.

Cost type Costs per group (€)
mean (SD)b
95% CIb

MTC MT UC MTC–MT
UC–MT MTC–UC
Fixed costs






Intervention costs (n=384) 57.70 7.70 0


Health care–related costs






General practitioner (n=384) 157 (14) 180 (27) 139 (17) –86.1 to 32.3 –105.8 to 15.5 –25.4 to 61.4

Medical specialist (n=374) 298 (52) 251 (62) 224 (48) –115.8 to 198.1 –188.3 to 116.6 –61.2 to 213.8

Hospital (n=380) 610 (288) 267 (106) 172 (84) –139.7 to 1054.7 –374.0 to 161.1 –17.0 to 1133.4

Alternative healer (n=382) 17 (6) 29 (13) 18 (9) –42.9 to 13.7 –43.1 to 18.6 –23.4 to 18.8

Mental health care (n=384) 106 (39) 95 (34) 131 (71) –92.2 to 109.8 –97.1 to 209.4 –200.2 to 111.9

Prescribed and OTC smoking cessation medication (n=384) 148 (24) 144 (30) 90 (23) –72.7 to 79.1 –129.6 to 18.5 –9.0 to 124.6

Smoking cessation aids (n=384) 20 (10) 15 (10) 19 (14) –21.6 to 32.5 –27.9 to 41.0 –34.4 to 32.3

Other care (n=382) 122 (87) 21 (12) 41 (22) –15.9 to 293.6 –24.7 to 72.4 –45.9 to 281.7

Overall health care–related costs (n=370) 1564 (338) 1016 (158) 761 (122) –95.4 to 1381.4 –642.2 to 139.1 194.3-1611.8

a Volumes and price details are available upon request.

b Based on 5000 bootstrap replications.