Table 1.
Socio-demographic data.
| FS (n = 37) |
AS (n = 39) |
NoNi (n = 86) |
FS vs NoNi |
AS vs Noni |
FS vs AS |
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| n(%)-means (SD) | Chi2-MWU-Std | p1 | Chi2-MWU-Std | p2 | Chi2-MWU-Std | p5 | ||||||
| Sex rowhead | ||||||||||||
| Men (n) | 32 (86.5%) | 20 (51.3%) | 31 (36.0%) | 26.3 | <0.001 | 2.58 | 0.108 | 10.9 | <0.001 | |||
| Age (years) | 57.7 (12.8) | 48.1 (13.8) | 50.2 (14.5) | 2.70 | 0.008 | −0.763 | 0.447 | 3.13 | 0.002 | |||
| BMI (kg/m2) | 27.4 (4.86) | 28.0 (7.03) | 27.8 (6.33) | 1525 | 0.980 | 1526 | 0.798 | 654 | 0.895 | |||
| Smoking rowhead | ||||||||||||
| 1st cigarette (age, years) | 16.5 (3.69) | 16.1 (3.09) | / | / | / | / | / | 578 | 0.440 | |||
| Time smoking (years) | 26.8 (14.6) | 32.4 (15.2) | / | / | / | / | / | −1.58 | 0.119 | |||
| lenght of abstinence (years) | 18.0 (18.1) | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | |||
| Cigarettes/day | 22.5 (12.9) | 8.21 (5.56) | / | / | / | / | 215 | <0.001 | ||||
| Year-pack | 30.3 (24.8) | 13.9 (13.2) | / | / | / | / | / | 74 | <0.001 | |||
| Fagerstrom test rowhead | ||||||||||||
| No dependance | 36 (97.3%) | 15 (38.5%) | 86 (100.0%) | / | / | / | / | 29.9 | <0.001 | |||
| light | 1 (2.7%) | 12 (30.8%) | 0 (0.0%) | |||||||||
| Moderate | 0 (0.0%) | 9 (23.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | |||||||||
| Severe | 0 (0.0%) | 3 (7.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | |||||||||
| Nicotine substitutes rowhead | ||||||||||||
| None | 37 (100.0%) | 31 (79.5%) | 86 (100.0%) | / | / | / | / | / | / | |||
| E-cigarette | 0 (0.0%) | 4 (10.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | |||||||||
| E-cigarette + Gum | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | |||||||||
| Gum | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | |||||||||
| Nicopass | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (2.6%) | 0 (0.0%) | |||||||||
| Patch | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (5.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | |||||||||
| Patch + Gum | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (2.6%) | 0 (0.0%) | |||||||||
AS =Active smoker; FS= Former smoker; MWU = Mann Withney U; NoNi=No nicotine use.
Statistically significant results in bold.
(*) Correction for the following factors: Age, gender; BMI.