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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jul 21.
Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2014 Aug;22(8):2207–2217. doi: 10.1007/s00520-014-2165-8

Table 1.

Participant characteristics and smoking behavior (N=374)

Numbera Percentageb
Sociodemographic characteristics
Age (range= 19–56), M (SD) 32.4 (7.9)
Education
 ≥College 111 29.7
 Some college/vocational school 128 34.2
 High school or GED 103 27.5
 <High school 32 8.6
Did you work in the past year
 Yes 297 79.4
 No 77 20.6
Gender
 Male 192 51.3
 Female 182 48.7
Race/ethnicity
 White 320 85.6
 Non-White 54 14.4
Marital status
 Married or partnered 176 47.2
 Unmarried or not partnered 197 52.8
Clinical characteristics
Childhood cancer diagnosis
 Leukemia 85 22.7
 Hodgkin’s disease 73 19.5
 CNS malignancy 35 9.4
 Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma 25 6.7
 Bone cancer 29 7.8
 Other 127 34.0
Age at diagnosis, in years (range=0–31), M (SD) 12.4 (8.1)
Cancer treatment received: surgery
 Yes 265 72.6
 No 100 27.4
Cancer treatment received: radiation
 Yes 227 61.4
 No 143 38.6
Cancer treatment received: chemotherapy
 Yes 285 77.2
 No 84 22.8
Self-reported health status
 Excellent or very good 122 32.6
 Good 153 40.9
 Fair or poor 99 26.5
Risk perceptions
Smoking may increase my chance of developing health problems
 Disagree 0 0
 Somewhat agree 76 20.3
 Completely agree 298 79.7
Chances of diagnosis of cancer in the future
 Much less/slightly less 42 11.3
 Same 109 29.4
 Slightly more 146 39.4
 Much more 74 19.9
Chance of having heart problems
 Much less/slightly less 52 13.8
 About the same 231 35.5
 Slightly more 127 34.4
 Much more 60 16.3
Have a regular health care provider
 Yes 294 78.6
 No 80 21.4
Had a PCP or oncology exam in the past year
 Yes 284 75.9
 No 90 24.1
Smoking rate (avg # cigarettes/day), M (SD) 12.6 (10.0)
During the past 7 days, on average, # cigarettes/day
 <1 7 2.0
 1–10 185 53.3
 11–20 116 33.4
 >20 39 11.3
Number of minutes after waking until first cigarette
 <30 min 126 34.2
 30+min 242 65.8
a

Sample sizes may differ slightly due to missing data

b

Percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding