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. 2013 Sep 16;16(2):208–215. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntt147

Table 1.

Sample Characteristics

Smoker group Gender
Occasional (n = 52) Daily (n = 55) p value Male Female p value
Female 55% 31% .01
Occasional smoker 38% 62% .01
Age (SD) 18.8 (0.8) 19.1 (1.0) .08 19.1 (0.9) 18.7 (0.9) .02
Race .02 .2
 White 93% 72% 78% 87%
 Black 6% 19% 22% 13%
Addicted to smoking (self report) 6% 77% <.001 54% 28% .007
Concerned about health effects of smoking 62% 61% .93 65% 57% .4
Smoke a particular brand 57% 93% <.001 80% 70% .2
Number of days smoked in past 30 days 14.1 (6.0) 28.5 (4.9) <.001 22.3 (9.1) 19.7 (8.7) .06
Mean cigarettes/day—weekday 1.7 (1.3) 12.4 (6.9) <.001 7.9 (7.1) 6.3 (7.7) .3
Mean cigarettes/day—weekend 3.9 (2.6) 15.1 (7.6) <.001 10.3 (8.0) 8.7 (8.0) .3
Carbon monoxide, ppm 3.5 (6.2) 11.7 (4.9) <.001 9.4 (7.5) 5.4 (5.5) .004
Age started smoking 15.9 (1.7) 15.0 (2.2) .01 15.5 (2.2) 15.4 (1.6) .8
Number of serious quit attempts 0.7 (1.6) 1.4 (1.9) .04 1.3 (2.1) 0.8 (1.4) .2
FTND .25 (0.9) 3.2 (1.9) <.001 2.0 (2.0) 1.6 (2.3) .3
AUTOS 9.6 (7.4) 20.7 (8.1) <.001 15.9 (9.4) 14.7 (9.7) .5
Drinking days per month .005 .5
 <10 51% 77% 67% 61%
 ≥10 49% 23% 33% 39%
How often get drunk per week .07 .14
 None 26% 46% 36% 37%
 Once per week 34% 32% 27% 41%
 Twice or more per week 40% 23% 38% 22%

Note. AUTOS = Autonomy over Smoking Scale; FTND = Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence.