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Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE)
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Publications

Take a look at CHIBE’s publications, which are helping advance the science of using behavioral economics to improve health and leading to discoveries around how our minds work.

Use of organizational change strategies and personalized agency feedback improves addressing tobacco in behavioral health outpatient treatment settings

Frontiers in Health Services
October 6, 2025
Douglas Ziedonis, Robert A Schnoll, Orrin Myers, Thomas Anthony Chavez, Amy Bachyrycz, Cesar J Ojeda, Frank T Leone, Mackenzie Hosie Quinn, Prajakta Adsul

Automated Tobacco Cessation Intervention for Parents in Pediatric Primary Care: A Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA Network
August 27, 2025
Emara Nabi-Burza, Brian P. Jenssen, Abra M. Jeffers, Janani Ramachandran, Jeritt G. Thayer, Bethany Hipple, Douglas E. Levy, Robert W. Grundmeier, Olivier Drouin, Mark Vangel, Nancy A. Rigotti, Tyra Bryant-Stephens, Ekaterina Nekrasova, Madeline McKnight, Jonathan P. Winickoff, Alexander G. Fiks

A formative study to develop nudges informed by behavioral economics to increase engagement with tobacco treatment among people who smoke receiving care for HIV

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
August 18, 2025
Daniel Blumenthal, Nathaniel Stevens, Frank T. Leone, Anna-Marika Bauer, E. Paul Wileyto, Casey Foster, Spencer Schwartz, Julia Villasenor, Brian P. Jenssen, Helen Koenig, Judith O’Donnell, Robert Gross, Robert Schnoll

Delayed Effects of Cigarette Graphic Warning Labels on Smoking Behavior

American Journal of Health Promotion
July 16, 2025
Zhenhao Shi, An-Li Wang, Jiaying Liu, Janet Audrain-McGovern, Kevin G Lynch, James Loughead, Daniel D Langleben

Baseline predictors of smoking cessation among individuals with current or past major depressive disorder following treatment with varenicline and intensive behavioral treatment

Drug and Alcohol Dependence
July 8, 2025
Brian Hitsman, Michael D’Eletto, Jacqueline K. Gollan, Robert A. Schnoll, George D. Papandonatos

Effect of sweet flavouring on the rewarding and reinforcing value of cigarillo use among young adults

Tobacco Control
May 15, 2025
Janet Audrain-McGovern, Divya Manikandan, Fodie Koita, Olivia Klapec, Wallace B Pickworth, Matthew D Stone

Daily cigarette abstinence and smoking rate with varenicline: Relationships with treatment, craving, and affect during the first week of the quit attempt

Nicotine & Tobacco Research
May 4, 2025
Sarah S Tonkin, Jennifer M Betts, Ashley N Dowd, Martin C Mahoney, Paul M Cinciripini, Robert A Schnoll, Tony P George, Rachel F Tyndale, Larry W Hawk Jr

Sharing a Hybrid EHR + FHIR CDS Tool Across Health Systems: Automating Smoking Cessation for Pediatric Caregivers

Applied Clinical Informatics
February 11, 2025
Sameh Nagui Saleh, Eric Kim, Jeritt G. Thayer, Emara Nabi, Dean Karavite, Jonathan Winickoff, Alexander Fiks, Brian P. Jenssen, Nicholas Riley, Robert W. Grundmeier

Shifts in motivation to quit cigarette smoking associated with IQOS use

Addictive Behaviors
December 19, 2024
Janet Audrain-McGovern, Olivia Klapec, E Paul Wileyto, Andrew A Strasser

The Relative Reinforcing Value of Menthol Among Young Adult Cigarette Smokers: Results From a Behavioral Choice Task

Nicotine & Tobacco Research
September 18, 2024
Amy M Cohn, Hoda Elmasry, Rebecca Ashare, Wallace Pickworth, James G Murphy, Andrea C Villanti, Donald Hedeker, Delaney Dunn, Riley Wyatt, Taylor Niznik, Whitney D Margaritis, Michael A Smith, Sarah J Ehlke, Janet Audrain-McGovern

Switching from cigarettes to IQOS: the relative importance of IQOS-associated reward, reinforcement and abstinence relief

Tobacco Control
June 13, 2024
Janet Audrain-McGovern, E Paul Wileyto, Olivia Klapec, Fodie Koita, Andrew A Strasser

A Pilot Study to Evaluate the Use of Automated Nicotine Metabolite Ratio Reporting within Primary Care as an Implementation Strategy to Increase the Use of Tobacco Treatments

Nicotine & Tobacco Research
May 23, 2024
Robert Schnoll, Frank T Leone, Anna-Marika Bauer, E Paul Wileyto, Colin Wollack, Nathaniel Stevens, Daniel Blumenthal, Casey Foster, Fodie Koita, Julia Villasenor, Brian P Jenssen

Delayed Effects of Cigarette Graphic Warning Labels on Smoking Behavior

medRxiv
January 9, 2024
Zhenhao Shi, An-Li Wang, Janet Audrain-McGovern, Kevin G Lynch, James Loughead, Daniel D Langleben

Depression Severity Moderates Reward Learning Among Smokers with Current or Past Major Depressive Disorder in a Smoking Cessation Randomized Clinical Trial

Nicotine & Tobacco Research
November 7, 2023
Jacqueline K. Gollan, Gabrielle Liverant, Nancy C. Jao, Kayla A. Lord, Alexis E. Whitton, Lee Hogarth, Erica Fox, Anna-Marika Bauer, Mackenzie Hosie Quinn, Diego A. Pizzagalli, Frank T. Leone, George D. Papandonatos, Robert A. Schnoll, Brian Hitsman

Seeing Through the Blind: Belief about Treatment Randomization and Smoking Cessation Outcome among People with Current or Past Major Depressive Disorder who Smoke in a Placebo-Controlled Trial of Varenicline

Nicotine & Tobacco Research
November 2, 2023
Robert Schnoll, E. Paul Wileyto, Anna-Marika Bauer, Erica N. Fox, Daniel Blumenthal, Mackenzie Hosie Quinn, Frank Leone, Mark D. Huffman, Sadiya S. Khan, Jacqueline K. Gollan, George D. Papandonatos, Brian Hitsman

Effects of Cigarette Package Colors and Warning Labels on Marlboro Smokers’ Risk Beliefs, Product Appraisals, and Smoking Behavior: A Randomized Trial

BMC Public Health
October 27, 2023
Matthew D. Stone, Melissa Mercincavage, E. Paul Wileyto, Andy S.L. Tan, Janet Audrain-McGovern, Andrea C. Villanti & Andrew A. Strasser