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. 2011 Jun 18;11:479. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-479

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
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