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

Table 2.

Twenty-Four-week Abstinence by Treatment

Cardiac
N = 252
Respiratory
N = 817
Vascular
N = 1211
Diabetes
N = 282
Abstinence rates by treatment Treatment n Abstinent
n = 29 (11.51%)
Treatment n Abstinent
n = 83 (10.16%)
Treatment n Abstinent
n = 154 (12.72%)
Treatment n Abstinent
n = 31 (10.99%)
Varenicline 60 14 (23.33%) 219 30 (13.70%) 302 57 (18.87) 68 14 (20.59%)
Bupropion 66 9 (13.64%) 191 19 (9.95%) 299 36 (12.04%) 77 7 (9.09%)
NRT 70 5 (7.14%) 203 15 (7.39%) 313 40 (12.78%) 65 7 (10.77%)
Placebo 56 1 (1.79%) 204 19 (9.31%) 297 21 (7.07%) 72 3 (4.17%)
Full model–treatment effect Type III F (DF) Type III F (DF) Type III F (DF) Type III F (DF)
3.84 (3, 244) 1.71 (3, 809) 5.98 (3, 1203) 3.76 (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 0.73 2.34 2.08
(0.81 to 5.38)
0.38 1.46 1.46
(0.78 to 2.70)
0.55 5.56 1.73
(1.09 to 2.74)
1.09 4.50 2.99
(1.08 to 8.32)
NRT 1.35 5.38 3.86
(1.21 to 12.26)
0.72 4.63 2.06
(1.06 to 3.98)
0.45 4.04 1.58
(1.01 to 2.46)
0.86 2.69 2.38
(0.84 to 6.77)
Placebo 3.08 8.39 21.74
(2.65 to 178.23)
0.44 1.98 1.55
(0.84 to 2.89)
1.12 17.00 3.08
(1.80 to 5.25)
2.13 9.28 8.43
(2.11 to 33.65)
Bupropion NRT 0.36 0.35 1.44
(0.43 to 4.89)
0.44 1.43 1.55
(0.75 to 3.21)
−0.07 0.07 0.94
(0.58 to 1.52)
−0.23 0.16 0.79
(0.25 to 2.52)
Placebo 2.34 4.59 10.40
(1.19 to 90.36)
0.06 0.04 1.07
(0.54 to 2.11)
0.54 3.38 1.71
(0.96 to 3.03)
0.62 0.70 1.86
(0.43 to 8.13)
NRT Placebo 2.24 3.12 9.36
(0.76 to 114.93)
−0.32 0.77 0.72
(0.35 to 1.49)
0.62 4.76 1.87
(1.06 to 3.27)
1.28 2.60 3.62
(0.75 to 17.52)

% 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.