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. 2023 Apr 25;29(3):171–181. doi: 10.1159/000530111

Table 1.

Predictors of the number of different days when the app was accessed, ranked in decreasing order of importance

Predictors %IncMSE
Intention to quit smoking assessed at 1-month follow-up 47.21
Cigarettes/day measured at 1-month follow-up 38.78
Perceived helpfulness of the app measured after 1 month 22.88
Having quit smoking after 1 month 17.47
Experiment group (treatment vs. control) 15.45
Age 8.94
Number of years smoking 7.65
Current use of any smoking cessation app, as self-reported at 1-month follow-up 5.68
Cigarettes/day as measured at baseline 5.09
Use of e-cigarettes at baseline 4.56
Use of heated tobacco product as self-reported after 1-month follow-up 4.03
Number of minutes before the first cigarette of the day 3.42
Use of nicotine medications after 1-month follow-up 2.85
Use of e-cigarettes after 1-month follow-up 2.01
Use of nicotine medications at baseline 1.71
Depression screening test positive 1.22
Use/smoke other tobacco products at baseline 1.14
Country (Switzerland vs. France) 0.81
Use of heated tobacco product at baseline 0.58
Sex 0.48

%IncMSE, percent increase in mean squared error, a statistical measure indicating the level on the predictor variable importance in the regression machine learning algorithm.