Table 2.
Reasons for Never Having Used Nicotine Replacement Therapy (Weighted %) Among Current Smokers With Quit Intentions, by Demographic, Smoking, and Quitting Characteristics, Colorado 2008 (n = 608)
| Willpower/ no need for NRT (%) | Lack of effectiveness (%) | Cost (%) | Afraid of addiction/continuing nicotine (%) | Afraid will harm health (%) | Side effects (%) | Don’t know how/where to get it (%) | Not addicted/don’t smoke much (%) | Wasn’t ready/didn’t want to quit (%) | Don’t know reason (%) | Other reason/multiple reasons (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | 21.5 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 3.2 | 2.7 | 3.4 | 15.1 | 13.3 |
| Sex | |||||||||||
| Male | 18.5 | 19.1 | 15.6 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 1.7 | 3.8 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 13.8 | 12.6 |
| Female | 26.4 | 9.8 | 12.0 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 5.1 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 17.2 | 14.6 |
| Age, years | |||||||||||
| 18–44 | 20.7 | 17.5 | 15.4 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 12.3 | 13.0 |
| 45+ | 24.3 | 8.7 | 10.3 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 4.6 | 25.0 | 14.5 |
| Education | |||||||||||
| ≤GED | 17.5 | 10.0 | 12.3 | 7.0 | 4.7 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 7.2 | 6.1 | 16.7 | 10.9 |
| HSG to <CG | 19.5 | 19.6 | 16.6 | 3.5 | 4.9 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 0.2 | 2.6 | 10.0 | 16.3 |
| ≥CG | 31.4 | 8.8 | 9.0 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 6.0 | 3.2 | 29.1 | 6.4 |
| Ethnicity* | |||||||||||
| White | 14.7 | 15.4 | 18.3 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 3.3 | 14.3 | 17.5 |
| Hispanic | 36.9 | 13.7 | 7.8 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 17.3 | 5.3 |
| Black/African American | 10.6 | 28.4 | 6.0 | 6.1 | 5.0 | 1.6 | 17.4 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 11.8 | 11.9 |
| Smoking frequency* | |||||||||||
| Nondaily | 30.4 | 17.1 | 6.2 | 4.2 | 5.9 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 5.1 | 3.5 | 10.4 | 13.8 |
| Daily | 12.5 | 14.1 | 22.4 | 3.9 | 2.1 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 0.4 | 3.3 | 19.8 | 12.8 |
| Average cigarettes per day | |||||||||||
| ≤15 | 23.4 | 14.1 | 14.3 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 15.2 | 13.2 |
| >15 | 8.5 | 25.3 | 13.7 | 1.1 | 2.5 | 6.4 | 10.2 | 0.0 | 3.5 | 14.6 | 14.4 |
Note. CG = college graduation; GED = general equivalency diploma; HSG = high school graduation; NRT = nicotine replacement therapy. Poverty, educational level, insurance status, rurality, sure of quitting, call to quitline, mental health diagnosis/limitation, sexual orientation, time to first cigarette, number of prior quit attempts, and smoking permitted in the home failed to reach statistical significance at the p < .05 level.