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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jun 10.
Published in final edited form as: Tob Control. 2017 Apr 5;27(3):319–324. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-053344

Table 1.

Waterpipe smoking topography measures by preparation (n=30*)

Non-preferred control flavour Preferred flavour df t p
Mean SD Mean SD df t p
Total smoke time, min 46.09 2.01 45.74 1.35 29 0.899 0.376
Cumulative puffing time, min 6.82 3.79 8.06 7.80 29 −1.10 0.281
Average puff duration, s 3.43 1.54 3.16 1.48 29 1.39 0.176
Average flow rate, L/min 13.7 4.4 12.3 3.9 29 2.01 0.054
Average IPI, s 24.73 13.75 21.54 12.57 29 1.70 0.099
Total number of puffs 133 76 159 121 29 −1.76 0.090
Total inhaled volume, L 90.4 51.2 80.7 43.6 29 1.14 0.263
Average puff volume, L 0.79 0.43 0.65 0.39 29 2.50 0.018
Maximum puff volume, L 1.70 0.54 1.82 1.37 29 −0.51 0.614
*

6 participants were missing topography data for one or both WP sessions.

df, degrees of freedom; IPI, interpuff interval.