Table 1.
Descriptive and comparative statistics for study variables
| Regular Smokers n=120 MEAN/(SD) |
Intermittent Smokers n=95 MEAN/(SD) |
t | df | p | 95% CI Lower |
95% CI Upper |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 17.64 (1.41) | 16.88 (1.66) | −3.62 | 213 | .000 | −1.17 | −.35 |
| Age smoked 1st whole cigarette | 13.81 (2.70) | 14.43 (2.30) | 1.80 | 213 | .07 | −.06 | 1.31 |
| Cigarettes per day / 30 days | 10 (10.05) | 2.76 (2.74) | −6.82 | 213 | .000 | −9.33 | −5.14 |
| Cigarette per day / 5 days | 8.87 (8.60) | 2.56 (2.40) | −13.16 | 213 | .000 | −2.45 | −1.81 |
| Number of days smoked / 30 days | 28.36 (3.10) | 7.28 (5.23) | −36.73 | 213 | .000 | −22.20 | −19.94 |
| χ2 | df | p | |||||
| Male Gender | 65.3% | 65% | .002 | 1 | .96 | ||
| Other smokers in the home | 46% | 22% | 12.70 | 1 | .000 | ||
| Time to first cigarette | |||||||
| Within 5 minutes | 24% | 7% | 10.73 | 1 | .001 | ||
| 6 – 30 minutes | 31% | 6% | 19.21 | 1 | .000 | ||
| 31–60 minutes | 18% | 12% | 1.45 | 1 | .22 | ||
| > 60 minutes | 27% | 73% | 47.63 | 1 | .000 | ||