Table 4.
Distribution of Values and Groups of Values for Top 6 Elements.
| Element | Total # Values | # Unique Values [# Groups] | Top 3 Groups of Values (Examples) | Frequency | |
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| Status | 171 | 24 [8] | • quit (quit, quitting, former smoker) | 120 | (70.2%) |
| • smoker (smoker, smokers) | 18 | (10.5%) | |||
| • quit attempt (trying to quit, process of quitting) | 14 | (8.2%) | |||
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| Temporal | 220 | 154 [16] | • specific or estimated year (1956, 1970s, early 2000s) | 66 | (30.0%) |
| • specific or estimated number of years ago (10 years ago, about 8–10 years ago, over 40 years ago) | 60 | (27.3%) | |||
| • specific or estimated age (age 18, early twenties, teenager) | 24 | (15.5%) | |||
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| Method | 195 | 22 [8] | • exposure (exposed, exposure) | 110 | (56.4%) |
| • smoke (smokes, smoked, smoking) | 61 | (31.3%) | |||
| • chew (chews, chewed, chewing) | 11 | (5.6%) | |||
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| Type | 178 | 36 [13] | • secondhand smoke (2nd hand, passive smoke, second hand tobacco) | 65 | (36.5%) |
| • cigarette (cig., cigs, cigarettes) | 56 | (31.5%) | |||
| • cigar (cigar, cigars) | 25 | (14.0%) | |||
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| Amount | 155 | 85 [17] | • n (3, 7–10,~8, about 5) | 82 | (52.9%) |
| • n packs (1/2 pk, 2–3 packs, less than 1 pack, half a pack) | 35 | (22.6%) | |||
| • n ppd (1/2-1 PPD, 2–3 ppd, over lppd)* | 15 | (9.7%) | |||
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| Frequency | 165 | 60 [22] | • per day or n days (daily, /day, qd, every couple days, 8–10 x/day) | 84 | (50.9%) |
| • occasional (occ., now and then, periodically, rarely) | 33 | (20.0%) | |||
| • per week or n weeks (weekly, /week, every 2 weeks) | 23 | (13.9%) | |||
*
addresses both amount and frequency