Table 3.

Intentions and Subsequent Quit Attempts and Abstinence

Intention	Incidence of intention	Incidence of quit attempta		Incidence of abstinence
	%	%	OR b (95% CI)	%	OR b (95% CI)
Daily
Intend to smoke	93	3		<1c
Do not intend to smoke	7	16	4.9 (3.8, 6.4)	8c	35.0 (21.0, 59.0)
Weekly
No intention to quit	81	17		2d
Intend to quit	19	62	7.2 (4.9, 10.6)	11d	7.2 (3.8, 13.7)
Monthly
No intention to quit	46	36		1e
Intend to quit, no quit date	42	62	2.9 (1.8, 4.6)	6e	5.7 (1.2, 27.0)
Intend and set quit date	12	76	5.7 (2.7, 12.2)	12e	10.8 (1.9, 58.8)

Note. OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval.

^aShort or long quit attempt.

^bFrom multilevel regression. These are unadjusted results as none of the baseline variables predicted quitting.

^cAbstinent next day.

^dAbstinent on last day of week.

^eAbstinent for last seven days of month.