Table 2. Responses (as Percentages) to Motivation to Quit Questionnaire Items for Chewers and Smokers.
Question | No, definitely not | No, probably not | Don't know/undecided | Yes, probably | Yes, definitely | M (SD) | P-value a |
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Do you want to quit? | |||||||
Smoking cigarettes | 11.25 | 9.58 | 15.49 | 29.31 | 34.38 | 3.66 (1.33) | <.0001 |
Chewing betel nut | 15.43 | 14.00 | 26.57 | 16.00 | 28.00 | 3.27 (1.40) | |
Do you intend to quit? | |||||||
Smoking cigarettes | 9.47 | 9.41 | 15.91 | 35.82 | 29.38 | 3.66 (1.25) | <.0001 |
Chewing betel nut | 13.43 | 16.00 | 24.57 | 18.29 | 27.71 | 3.31 (1.38) | |
Do you have a plan for how to quit? | |||||||
Smoking cigarettes | 33.16 | 21.25 | 21.76 | 14.23 | 9.59 | 2.46 (1.33) | .63 |
Chewing betel nut | 37.36 | 19.54 | 19.83 | 10.06 | 13.22 | 2.42 (1.41) | |
Do you wish that you had never started in the first place? | |||||||
Smoking cigarettes | 8.18 | 5.22 | 7.54 | 12.89 | 66.17 | 4.24 (1.28) | <.0001 |
Chewing betel nut | 20.80 | 12.82 | 12.54 | 13.96 | 39.89 | 3.39 (1.60) | |
Do you have a specific plan about when to quit? | |||||||
Smoking cigarettes | 32.19 | 19.42 | 29.29 | 10.97 | 8.13 | 2.43 (1.26) | .06 |
Chewing betel nut | 36.60 | 13.26 | 23.34 | 6.92 | 19.88 | 2.60 (1.52) |
Note. Questionnaire items have been abridged to conserve space.
T-tests were used to assess mean differences in motivation to quit across the two samples.