Table 2.
Key assessments of the Smoking Toolkit Study
Smoking status | Daily; non-daily; quit within the last year; quit more than a year ago; never smoked for a year or more; use of non-cigarette tobacco |
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Amount smoked and nicotine intake | Cigarettes or other tobacco products used per day, week, or month; salivary cotinine (follow-up only) |
Nicotine dependence | Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence, strength of urge to smoke |
Route to quit | Motivation to quit; triggers of quit attempts; barriers to quitting; attempts to quit; methods of quitting (including pharmacological and behavioural aids, planning in advance, pre-quit cutting down); success at quitting |
Motivation to smoke | Attitudes, beliefs, and motives associated with smoking |
Harm reduction | Prevalence of attempts to cut down but not quit; use of nicotine replacement therapy when cutting down and/or prohibited from smoking |
Demographics | Gender; age, socio-economic status; geographic region |