Enhancing Smoking Cessation of Low-Income Smokers in Managed Care

Acknowledgments

Our research was supported by a grant from the Michigan Department of Community Health to the Institute for Managed Care of Michigan State University (MSU) as a subproject on “Cancer Prevention, Outreach and Screening/Detection for Cancer Patients.”

Joseph Farrell, MA, director of the Institute for Managed Care, acted as the overall project director. Barbara Given, PhD, RN, and professor in the College of Nursing at MSU, was overall project manager. Wei Pan, MS, provided data management and statistical support. Kathy Ives, research assistant, contributed project coordination, data entry, and analysis. Dorothy Pathak, PhD, biostatistics consultant, verified the statistical analysis. We thank the Medicaid managed care plans of Wellness, Care Choices, Physicians Health Plan, and Community Choice for allowing patient participation and covering pharmacotherapy during the study. We thank the community health center physicians and staff in the Michigan communities of Hackley, Baldwin, and Muskegon for participating in the study.