Table 1.

Descriptive statistics, intercorrelations, and Cronbach alpha coefficients of demographic and smoking characteristics and Smoking Abstinence Questionnaire scales

Variable	M (SD) or N (%)	Intercorrelations (r)
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1. Age	44.50 (10.97)	–	0.10	0.26 †	0.02	0.19 *	0.09	0.15 *	−0.14	0.18 *	0.19 **
2. Male gender	122 (67.8 %)	–		0.02	0.04	−0.01	−0.05	−0.03	− 0.17 *	0.14	− 0.21 **
3. African-American race	87 (48.3 %)			–	0.27 †	0.13	−0.12	0.06	−0.11	0.03	0.20 **
4. Non-Hispanic ethnicity	167 (92.8 %)				–	0.11	−0.02	−0.04	−0.06	−0.06	0.10
5. Age of smoking onset	20.01 (6.16)					–	0.02	− 0.19 *	− 0.21 **	−0.04	0.00
6. Cigarettes/day	16.82 (6.98)						–	0.46 ‡	0.25 †	0.01	0.10
7. FTCD	5.27(1.91)							–	0.36 ‡	0.07	0.24 **
8. SAQ-Withdrawal	3.76 (1.43)								(0.88)	−0.03	0.43 ‡
9. SAQ-Optimistic  Outcomes	2.86 (1.34)									(0.72)	0.17 *
10. SAQ-Weight Gain	3.27 (1.86)										(0.87)

N’s range from 173 to 180 due to missing data. Variables in parentheses along the diagonal represent Cronbach alpha estimates for Smoking Abstinence Questionnaire scales. Point-biserial correlations are reported for relationships between continuous variables and between continuous and dichotomous variables; phi coefficients are reported for relationships between dichotomous variables. Cigarettes/day = average number of cigarettes smoked per day; SAQ-Withdrawal = Withdrawal scale of the Smoking Abstinence Questionnaire (possible range 0–6); SAQ-Optimistic outcomes = Optimistic Outcomes scale of the Smoking Abstinence Questionnaire (possible range 0–6); SAQ-Weight Gain = Weight Gain scale of the Smoking Abstinence Questionnaire (possible range 0–6). Findings in italics are significant

FTCD Fagerström Test for Cigarette Dependence (possible range 0–10)

^*p<0.05

**p<0.01

^†p<0.001

^‡p<0.0001