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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. 2011 May 16;30(6):693–701. doi: 10.1037/a0023443

Table 2. Reliability of smoking quantity/frequency: Correlations between smoking items from the smoking questionnaire and TLFB questionnaire.

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Smoking Questionnaire Average number of cigarettes smoked between today and yesterday Number of cigarettes smoked in past 7 days Average number of cigarettes smoked per day Average number of smoking days per week
“How many cigarettes did you smoke in the past 24 hours?” .83** .83** .82** .51**
“How many cigarettes did you smoke in the past 7 days?” .82** .86** .87** .49**
“What is the usual number of cigarettes you smoke in a day?” .85** .89** .90** .48**
“On average, how many days in a week do you smoke cigarettes (0–7)?” .47** .49** .50** .80**
**

.p < .01 (2-tailed).

Bold indicates items measuring the same construct.