Table 6.

Detailed quit method used - NCS sample

	Program only			Product only			No cost+product			Product +program			No cost+program			All three methods
Independent Variable	Estimate	Odds		Estimate	Odds		Estimate	Odds		Estimate	Odds		Estimate	Odds		Estimate	Odds
Intercept	−5.685 (0.563)		***	−5.350 (0.285)		***	−4. 943 (0.335)		***	−6.376 (0.844)		***	−4.323 (0.624)		***	−6.745 (0.955)		***
Age of respondent	0.047 (0.022)	1.049	**	0.154 (0.012)	1.166	***	0.105 (0.014)	1.110	***	0.092 (0.033)	1.096	***	0.008 (0.025)	1.008		0.036 (0.037)	1.036
Age squared	−0.268 (0.230)	0.765		−1.509 (0.124)	0.221	***	−0.996 (0.146)	0.369	***	−0.833 (0.341)	0.435	**	−0.034 (0.271)	0.966		−0.036 (0.373)	0.965
Female respondent	0.248 (0.107)	1.28	**	0.172 (0.049)	1.19	***	0.011 (0.062)	1.01		0.244 (0.150)	1.28		0.203 (0.127)	1.22		−0.001 (0.172)	1.00
Employed	0.096 (0.129)	1.10		0.010 (0.061)	1.01		−0.032 (0.075)	0.97		−0.329 (0.173)	0.72	*	−0.288 (0.148)	0.75	*	0.495 (0.225)	1.64	**
Family income*10⁻⁴	0.128 (0.030)	1.14	***	0.102 (0.014)	1.11	***	0.069 (0.018)	1.07	***	0.104 (0.044)	1.11	**	0.114 (0.035)	1.12	***	0.167 (0.050)	1.18	***
Family income squared*10⁻⁹	−0.036 (0.012)	0.96	***	−0.031 (0.006)	0.97	***	−0.019 (0.007)	0.98	***	−0.035 (0.018)	0.97	*	−0.031 (0.014)	0.97	**	−0.049 (0.021)	0.95	**
Family size	0.074 (0.045)	1.08	*	−0.035 (0.024)	0.97		−0.008 (0.028)	0.99		−0.025 (0.074)	0.97		−0.036 (0.058)	0.96		−0.108 (0.088)	0.90
Presence of children in the household	−0.107 (0.150)	0.90		0.044 (0.071)	1.04		0.139 (0.087)	1.15		−0.208 (0.223)	0.81		0.236 (0.177)	1.27		0.199 (0.255)	1.22
Education (ref. high school graduate)
Less than high school	0.216 (0.161)	1.24		0.167(0.080)	1.18	**	0.259 (0.099)	1.30	***	−0.081 (0.251)	0.92		0.063 (0.203)	1.06		0.561 (0.248)	1.75	**
Some college	0.001 (0.126)	1.00		−0.041 (0.060)	0.96		0.259 (0.074)	1.30	***	0.166 (0.176)	1.18		−0.057 (0.155)	0.94		−0.055 (0.216)	0.95
College graduate	−0.235 (0.159)	0.79		0.106 (0.068)	1.11		−0.044 (0.093)	0.96		0.077 (0.213)	1.08		0.207 (0.174)	1.23		−0.155 (0.256)	0.86
Ethnicity (ref. White)
Black	0.358 (0.167)	1.43	**	−0.455 (0.102)	0.63	***	−0.031 (0.109)	0.97		−0.636 (0.348)	0.53	*	−0.383 (0.266)	0.68		0.310 (0.283)	1.36
Hispanic	−0.128 (0.257)	0.88		−0.301 (0.125)	0.74	**	0.093 (0.132)	1.10		−0.013 (0.350)	0.99		0.312 (0.237)	1.37		0.453 (0.339)	1.57
Other	0.276 (0.265)	1.32		0.012 (0.129)	1.01		−0.015 (0.165)	0.99		0.319 (0.351)	1.38		−0.129 (0.347)	0.88		−0.717 (0.718)	0.49
Marital Status (ref. married)
Divorced	0.227 (0.145)	1.25		−0.002 (0.069)	1.00		0.211 (0.085)	1.23	**	0.174 (0.194)	1.19		0.283 (0.176)	1.33		0.330 (0.227)	1.39
Never married	0.035 (0.164)	1.04		−0.132 (0.078)	0.88	*	0.147 (0.092)	1.16		−0.476 (0.259)	0.62	*	0.160 (0.182)	1.17		−0.039 (0.280)	0.96
Medical insurance (ref. private insurance)
Medicaid	0.194 (0.255)	1.21		−0.193 (0.143)	0.82		0.063 (0.154)	1.07		0.528 (0.325)	1.70		−0.051 (0.328)	0.95		0.026 (0.478)	1.03
Multiple insurance types^a	0.088 (0.382)	1.09		0.355 (0.187)	1.43	*	0.114 (0.257)	1.12		0.865 (0.381)	2.37	**	−0.427 (0.602)	0.65		−1.070 (1.021)	0.34
No insurance	−0.088 (0.134)	0.92		−0.199 (0.064)	0.82	***	−0.125 (0.078)	0.88		0.083 (0.186)	1.09		0.001 (0.153)	1.00		0.149 (0.209)	1.16

Total Sample Size	14084
No cost methods	9,471
Pharmaceutical cessation products only	2,295
Quit smoking programs only	402
No cost+pharmaceutical product	1,291
Pharmaceutical product +program	201
No cost+program	279
All three methods	145

Source: authors’ calculations from NCS. ***, **, and * denote coefficients with p-values of <.01, .05, and .10 respectively.

See note in Table 2.