Abstract:

The purpose of the study was to develop an incentive program to encourage employees to quit smoking. The authors developed a four-stage program. The first step is to find out how many employees smoke in the workplace and identify what made them nicotine-addicted. At this stage of the program, it is planned to install cigarette smoke detectors, introduce video surveillance and control systems, to conduct questionnaire surveys to identify the causes of smoking and provide the employees with the psychological assistance they need. At the second stage it is essential to implement incentive measures (incentive pay to those employees who lead a healthy lifestyle). At the third stage, it is proposed to introduce a system of penalties for smoking during working hours by means of reducing the monthly performance-based incentives and introduction of long working hours. The fourth stage implies continuous monitoring of the implementation of incentive measures and the system of penalties. After this program was tested, it proved to be economically and socially effective.