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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Tob Control. 2014 Jan 13;24(0):e87–e92. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2013-051234

Table 2.

Mean (standard deviation) differences in motivation to quit smoking overall and by experimental condition

Experimental Conditions
Warning Label Overall
n = 740
Loss-Framed
Branded Packs
n = 123
Gain-Framed
Branded Packs
n = 253
Loss-Framed
Plain Packs
n = 131
Gain-Framed
Plain Packs
n =233
Lung Disease (A) 5.1 (2.0)C,D 5.1 (2.1)D 5.0 (2.0)C, D 4.8 (2.0)D 5.4 (1.8)C,D
Cancer (B) 5.2 (2.0)C,D 5.2 (2.1)D 5.1 (2.0)C, D 4.9 (2.0)C,D 5.5 (1.8)C,D
Mortality (C) 4.8 (2.1)A,B,D 4.9 (2.2)D 4.8 (2.0)A,B,D 4.5 (2.2)B 5.1 (2.0)A,B,D
Stroke/Heart Attack (D) 4.3 (2.1)A,B,C 4.4 (2.0)A,B,C 4.2 (2.1)A,B,C 4.1 (2.2)A,B 4.4 (1.9)A,B,C

Motivation to quit was captured on a 7-point scale with higher values indicating stronger cessation motivation. Superscript letters adjacent to means within a column indicate significant differences at an overall alpha of 0.05 in paired t tests between warning labels using a Bonferroni adjustment for multiple comparisons