Table 2.

Characteristics of enrolled participants

	All (n = 1866)		Organization 1 (n = 986)		Organization 2 (n = 880)
Characteristic	n	%	n	%	n	%
Female	1110	59.5	586	59.4	524	59.5
Married/living with partner	1278	68.5	682	69.1	595	67.6
Employed	1421	76.2	749	76.0	672	76.3
Education*
High school/GED or less	451	24.2	204	20.6	246	28.0
Vocational/technicalschool	222	11.9	141	14.3	81	9.2
Some college	1050	56.3	564	57.0	486	55.2
Postgraduate degree	136	7.3	71	7.2	65	7.4
Caucasian*	1486	79.6	831	84.3	655	74.3
3 or more prior quit attempts†	1218	65.3	668	67.7	550	62.5
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age	46.3	10.7	46.5	11.1	46.1	10.2
Cigarettes per day*	21.8	9.3	21.0	8.6	22.7	9.9
Motivation to quit‡	8.3	1.7	8.3	1.7	8.3	1.8
Comfort using the Internet† ,‡	6.8	3.7	7.0	3.7	6.6	3.7

^*Significant difference between organizations, P < .001

^†Significant difference between organizations, P < .05

^‡Scores range from 1 to 10.