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. 2023 Jul 20;26(1):31–38. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntad126

Table 1.

Twelve-Week Abstinence by Treatment

Cardiac
N = 252
Respiratory
N = 817
Vascular
N = 1211
Diabetes
N = 282
Abstinence rates by treatment Treatment n Abstinent
n = 51 (20.24%)
Treatment n Abstinent
n = 133 (16.28%)
Treatment n Abstinent n = 231 (19.08%) Treatment n Abstinent
n = 50 (17.73%)
Varenicline 60 24 (40.00%) 219 54 (24.66%) 302 88 (29.14%) 68 21 (30.88%)
Bupropion 66 15 (22.73%) 191 27 (14.14%) 299 49 (16.39%) 77 10 (12.99%)
NRT 70 10 (14.29%) 203 26 (12.81%) 313 63 (20.13%) 65 13 (20.00%)
Placebo 56 2 (3.57%) 204 26 (12.75%) 297 31 (10.44%) 72 6 (8.33%)
Full model–treatment effect Type III F (DF) Type III F (DF) Type III F (DF) Type III F (DF)
6.98 (3, 244) 5.23 (3, 809) 11.36 (3, 1203) 4.84 (3, 274)
Individual treatment estimates
(treatment | reference)
β Type III F OR (95%CI) β Type III F OR (95%CI) β Type III F OR (95%CI) β Type III F OR (95%CI)
Varenicline Bupropion 0.86 4.68 2.38
(1.08 to 5.25)
0.70 7.23 2.01
(1.21 to 3.37)
0.75 13.75 2.12
(1.42 to 3.16)
1.20 7.37 3.35
(1.39 to 8.06)
NRT 1.31 8.06 3.69
(1.48 to 9.18)
0.84 10.01 2.31
(1.37 to 3.89)
0.49 6.48 1.63
(1.11 to 2.37)
0.71 2.60 2.04
(0.85 to 4.90)
Placebo 3.15 16.69 23.29
(5.06 to 107.08)
0.81 9.42 2.24
(1.34 to 3.76)
1.28 30.86 3.61
(2.29 to 5.67)
1.88 12.21 6.54
(2.26 to 18.95)
Bupropion NRT 0.29 0.36 1.33
(0.52 to 3.44)
0.19 0.41 1.21
(0.66 to 2.20)
−0.24 1.29 0.79
(0.52 to 1.19)
−0.58 1.49 0.56
(0.22 to 3.78)
Placebo 2.21 7.82 9.05
(1.91 to 42.97)
0.11 0.13 1.12
(0.62 to 2.00)
0.48 3.65 1.61
(0.98 to 2.62)
0.52 0.85 1.68
(0.55 to 5.13)
  NRT Placebo 2.82 7.10 16.84
(2.07 to 137.31)
-0.04 0.02 0.96
(0.53 to 1.74)
0.73 9.37 2.08
(1.30 to 3.33)
1.17 4.00 3.23
(1.01 to 10.27)

% abstinent represent column %s. Full models included age, race, sex, and psychiatric cohort. Italics results indicate p < .05. Additional models were run with treatment*cohort interaction term, which did not produce significant findings and thus were not reported.