Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of the study population

Characteristic		n	%
Smoking rate (cigarettes per day)
	<10	230	22.1
	10–19	379	36.4
	20–29	329	31.6
	≥30	103	9.9
Age group (years)
	≤25	164	15.7
	26–40	438	41.9
	41–55	358	34.2
	≥56	86	8.2
Gender
	Female	840	74.3
	Male	291	25.7
Education level
	Grade ≤11	58	5.1
	High school graduate or GEDa	239	21.1
	Some college	449	39.6
	College graduate or higher	388	34.2
Race
	White	984	87.0
	Black/African American	57	5.0
	Asian	18	1.6
	Pacific Islander/American Indian/Alaskan Native/Other/Don’t know	72	6.4
Quit in past year
	Yes	730	63.2
	No	425	36.8
Quit date
	In the next 24 hours	266	22.2
	In next week or two	362	30.3
	In next month	209	17.5
	In next 6 months	114	9.5
	In future/undecided	245	20.5
Free quitline help available?
	Yes	256	21.4
	No	35	3.0
	Don’t know	861	74.7
Ever used a quitline
	Yes	112	9.7
	No	884	76.6
	N/Ab—never tried to quit before	158	13.7

^a General equivalency diploma.

^b Not applicable.