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. 2008 Winter;41(4):527–538. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2008.41-527

Table 1.

Demographic and Smoking Variables

Contingent
Noncontingent
n  =  10 n  =  10 p valuea
Demographics
Age (years) 28.1 ± 6.2 31.4 ± 10.0 .39
Male (%) 40 40 .99b
Education (years) 11.9 ± 1.7 12.8 ± 1.4 .21
Methadone characteristics
Methadone dose (mg) 117.0 ± 43.2 95.9 ± 44.1 .31
Length of time at dose (days) 128 (38, 234) 47 (38, 90) .29c
Smoking characteristics
Baseline CO level (ppm) 11.8 ± 6.6 14.6 ± 4.0 .26
Baseline urine cotinine level (ng/ml) 1,350.7 ± 693.1 1,369.9 ± 546.7 .95
Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence score 5.8 ± 1.9 6.3 ± 1.2 .49
Mean age started smoking regularly (years) 14.1 ± 2.9 13.7 ± 2.1 .36
Mean number of years smoking regularly 12.2 ± 6.5 14.5 ± 9.5 .54
Mean number of cigarettes per day (past 7 days) 18.0 ± 2.9 19.5 ± 9.6 .64
Mean nicotine yield per cigarette (mg) 1.0 ± 0.3 1.0 ± 0.1 .49
Living with a smoker (%) 40 80 .07b
Quitting characteristics
Mean number of previous quit attempts 4.1 ± 3.8 4.1 ± 3.8 .99
Longest successful quit duration (days) 10 (0.5, 60) 53 (7, 240) .54c
Self-reported motivation to quit (5  =  high, 1  =  low) 4.6 ± 0.7 4.4 ± 0.8 .57
Self-reported ability to quit (5  =  low, 1  =  high) 3.8 ± 1.3 4.0 ± 1.2 .72

Note. Values represent M ± SD unless otherwise noted.

a

p values based on two-sample t tests unless otherwise noted.

b

p values based on chi-square test.

c

Values repesent median (interquartile range). p value based on Wilcoxon rank sum test.