Table 1.
Characteristics of smokers participating in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) and all smokers (Google, medical-referred, and dental-referred combined) who engaged in the Web-assisted tobacco intervention Decide2Quit.org.
| Demographic characteristic | Decide2Quit.org combined, n (%) n=604 |
BRFSS, (%) a n=69,992 |
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| Sex b |
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Male | 210 (34.7) | (54.3) |
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Female | 394 (65.2) | (45.7) |
| Age b |
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19-34 | 116 (19.2) | (33.0) |
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35-54 | 307 (50.8) | (44.1) |
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> 55 | 181 (30.0) | (22.9) |
| Race b |
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White | 529 (87.6) | (80.7) |
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Nonwhite | 75 (12.4) | (19.3) |
| Highest grade of school b |
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< High school | 36 (6.0) | (15.7) |
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High school | 171(28.3) | (38.5) |
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Some college or college graduate | 397 (65.7) | (45.9) |
| During the past 12 months, have you stopped smoking for 1 day or longer because you were trying to quit smoking? c | |||
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No | 277 (45.9) | (40.9) |
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Yes | 324 (54.1) | (58.8) |
| Smoking status |
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Not thinking about quitting | 26 (4.3) |
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Thinking of quitting | 413 (68.4) |
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Set a quit date | 72 (11.9) |
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Already quit | 93 (15.4) |
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aWeighted for complex survey design
b P=.001
c P=.01