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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 20.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2009 Jun;23(2):380–385. doi: 10.1037/a0015697

Table 1.

Demographic and Smoking History Characteristics of the Sample

Variable M (SD; range)
Age, years 39.2 (11.7; 20–63)
Number of years smoking regularly 18.9 (13.0; 2–48)
Cigarettes smoked per day 16.8 (2.7; 15–25)
Fagerström Test of Nicotine Dependence score 3.7 (1.8; 1–7)
Carbon monoxide level, parts per million 18.9 (13.0; 10–45)
Quit attempts of at least 24 hours 9.3 (12.5; 0–50)
Quit attempts of at least seven days 3.5 (4.8; 0–20)
Longest quit attempt, days 315.9 (540.0; .5–1825)

Variable Number of participants (%)
Female 16 (53.3)
Ethnoracial category
 White 18 (60.0)
 Black/African-American 8 (26.6)
 Multiracial 2 (6.6)
 Asian 1 (3.3)
 Other 1 (3.3)
 Hispanic/Latino (assessed across all ethnoracial categories) 6 (20.0)
Educational level achieved
 Some high school 3 (10)
 High school graduate 9 (30)
 Some college 13 (43.3)
 College graduate 4 (13.3)
 Graduate degree 1 (3.3)