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. 2012 Sep 18;15(5):978–982. doi: 10.1093/ntr/nts205

Table 1.

Sensitivity to Detect Smoking and Specificity for Verifying Abstinence in All Subjects, by Carbon Monoxide (CO) Cutoff Level (i.e., Below Which Designates Abstinence)

CO cutoff (ppm) Sensitivity Specificity Sensitivity + specificity
3 0.948 0.542 1.490
4 0.885 0.757 1.642
5 0.826 0.873 1.699
6 0.769 0.911 1.680
7 0.710 0.942 1.652
8 0.658 0.955 1.613
9 0.602 0.967 1.569
10 0.560 0.979 1.539
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