Here’s how much smoking costs your business

Parents want to motivate children. Companies want to motivate employees. Maybe you’ve been trying to figure out how to motivate yourself. We talk about motivation as if it’s the fix for everything. If we could just create enough of it, life would be easier, right? Right! But also wrong. We’re right in believing that motivation […]

Last year, smoking cost the U.S. economy nearly $300 billion, mainly due to the excess health care costs and lost productivity of smokers—financial implications that hit employers particularly hard. Secondhand smoke alone costs…

What if I told you we had a simple preventative service that could help avoid 50,000 premature deaths and $14 billion in U.S. health care expenditures every year? Amazing, right? Good news: This isn’t a “what if.” I’m talking about…

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 20, 2018/ — Digital health company Carrot Inc. today announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with RedBrick Health, a Minneapolis-based health technology and services company. As part of…

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 8, 2018 / — Digital health company Carrot Inc. today announced that healthcare industry veteran Jack Stoddard has joined the company’s board of directors, where he will lend his deep expertise as…

The start of a new year can be a hectic time in wellness. There’s the mad rush around the holidays, closing out the previous calendar year, and gearing up for the next. For many companies, January is also…

Recent declines in the overall smoking rate in the U.S. are unquestionably a public health victory. But the overall trends mask some geographical differences that can be shocking. That’s the conclusion of a recent report from…

Carrot Inc.’s Bluetooth-enabled mobile device helps users learn how smoking affects their carbon monoxide levels REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 3, 2017 — Carrot Inc. announced today that its Carbon Monoxide Breath Sensor…

The greatest public health achievement of the 20th Century was tobacco control. In 1965—the year that the first Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking was published—some 42 percent of U.S. adults were smokers, and only half of…