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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 3.
Published in final edited form as: Oral Health Dent Manag. 2014 Jun;13(2):512–518.

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
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.

a

T-tests were used to assess mean differences in motivation to quit across the two samples.