Table 1.

Baseline and Demographic Characteristics by Treatment Condition

	Placebo Gum (n = 51)	Active Gum (n = 45)
Age (M, SD)	44.8 (10.1)	45.1 (10.2)
Women (%)	29.4	28.9
Race (%)
White	88.2	91.1
Black	3.9	6.7
Hispanic	3.9	2.2
Other (bi-racial)	3.9	0.0
Education (% college degree)*	25.5	51.1
Baseline cigarettes/day (M, SD)	25.0 (10.3)	26.0 (9.16)
Carbon monoxide ppm (M, SD)	29.7 (13.6)	29.7 (13.4)
FTND (M, SD)*	5.45 (2.17)	6.47 (2.33)
90-Day baseline alcohol PDA (M, SD)	0.28 (0.26)	0.28 (0.27)
90-Day baseline alcohol PDH (M, SD)	0.58 (0.32)	0.56 (0.31)
90-day baseline other drug use (% any use)
Cocaine	13.7	13.3
Cannabis	19.6	26.6
CES-D (M, SD)*	15.5 (5.61)	19.4 (8.67)
Veteran (%)	29.4	33.3

Note. FTND = Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence, PDA = Percent Days Abstinent, PDH = Percent Days Heavy, CES-D = Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale.

^*p < .05.