Table 2.

Intervention and comparison group patient participant characteristics and visit context by enrollment period.

	Baseline Period			Post-Training Period
	Comparison (n=193)	Intervention (n=200)	P	Comparison (n=206)	Intervention (n=207)	P
Patient Characteristics
Age, mean (SD)	44.9 (12.8)	44.5 (12.8)	0.76	45.0 (13.4)	44.3 (12.5)	0.59
Female (%)	63	58	0.29	65	59	0.24
Hispanic (%)	7	9	0.39	8	14	0.03
Race (%)			0.09			0.14
White	55	65		54	57
Black / African-American	40	30		39	31
Other / more than one	5	6		8	12
Education (%)			0.19			0.05
Less than high school graduate	14	22		22	27
High school graduate or GED	38	34		41	28
Some college	33	33		26	31
College graduate	16	12		11	15
Self-reported health status (%)			0.86			0.78
Excellent	5	7		6	6
Very good	16	16		15	13
Good	34	34		29	33
Fair	32	29		28	30
Poor	14	16		21	18
Chronic conditions (%)
Diabetes	17	13	0.32	17	18	0.81
High Cholesterol	30	29	0.74	25	28	0.45
Hypertension	44	32	0.01	36	37	0.79
Heart Disease	8	7	0.50	7	9	0.48
None of the above	40	49	0.09	54	51	0.46
Cigarettes smoked per daya, median (IQR)	10 (10)	10 (14)	0.01	10 (15)	10 (13)	0.66
Visit Context
Seeing regular clinician (%)	82	83	0.70	74	84	0.02
Reason for visit (%)			0.64			0.54
New illness or problem	26	22		28	28
Continued care	41	47		45	47
Well care, physical	26	26		24	21
Other	7	7		2	5
Duration of visit (min)b, mean (SD)	18.9 (8.8)	21.0 (10.0)	0.03	17.3 (7.8)	20.5 (8.6)	<0.001
Visit included discussion of smokingb (%)	65	66	0.96	70	88	<0.001
Patient’s level of readiness to quitbc (%)			0.77			0.74
Not ready	16	13		14	16
Ambivalent	36	34		41	43
Ready	48	53		45	40

^aOne small cigar considered equivalent to three cigarettes.

^bDerived from audio recording of visit.

^cOnly includes cases with discussion of smoking during the visit; cases where patient’s level of readiness was Unclear/Unknown are excluded from the denominator.