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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2024 Mar 14;119(6):1059–1070. doi: 10.1111/add.16472

TABLE 1.

Participant characteristics for CARE, Break Free and PNS.

CARE Break Free PNS
Age 39.6 (11.5) 40.6 (10.0) 37.1 (10.1)
Gender (% female) 52% 54% 34%
Education (% > high school) 60% 48% 24%
Partner status (% married/living with partner) 37% 42% 68%
% smoking within 5 min of waking 60% 57% 17%
Baseline cigarettes per day 20.3 (10.6) 20.6 (12.8) 16.0 (8.4)
Early abstinence (ITT) 15% 8% 21%
Early abstinence (completers) 18% 10% 25%
Late abstinence (ITT) 4% 3% 5%
Late abstinence (completers) 4% 4% 9%
Weekly alcohol consumption
 Baseline
  Mean 11.63 (14.86) 13.62 (22.75) 10.82 (19.72)
  Median 6 7 4
  Range 0–94 0–250 0–150
 Quit day
  Mean 10.38 (14.25) 9 (16.81)
  Median 6 2
  Range 0–102 0–86
 Week 4 (abstainers)
  Mean 8.20 (12.45) 16.86 (24.73) 7.69 (15.39)
  Median 3 11 0.5
  Range 0–60 0–71 0–66
 Week 4 (relapsers)
  Mean 8.05 (11.76) 9.18 (11.76) 5.64 (9.80)
  Median 5 5 1
  Range 0–86 0–62 0–61
 Week 26 (abstainers)
  Mean 4.90 (4.72) 4.5 (6.59) 14.88 (21.38)
  Median 2.5 1.5 4
  Range 0–15 0–16 0–64
 Week 26 (relapsers)
  Mean 9.02 (12.68) 10.10 (10.85) 6.11 (13.05)
  Median 4 6.5 1
  Range 0–66 0–47 0–92

Note: Early abstinence refers to abstinence collected in the immediate weeks post-quit day (CARE: 4 weeks; Break Free: 4.5 weeks; PNS: 3 weeks). Late abstinence refers to abstinence collected at Week 26 post-quit. Completers refer to only participants who completed the assessment.

Abbreviations: ITT, intention to treat; PNS, Por Nuestra Salud.