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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 2015 Sep 21;23(6):494–503. doi: 10.1037/pha0000050

Table 4.

Spearman correlations between duration or frequency of use and product use behavior for e-cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes.

E-cigarettes
Tobacco cigarettes
Use duration
(years)
Days vaped/week
(past 30d)
Use duration
(years)
Days smoked/week
(past 30d)
E-cigarettes Use duration (years) - 0.02 0.19*** 0.02
Days vaped/week (past 30d) 0.02 - −0.03 −0.03
Times used/day 0.03 0.48*** 0.01 −0.10
Estimated puffs/bout 0.02 0.05 −0.06 0.01
Modified FTCD score 0.04* 0.23*** 0.01 −0.11*

Tobacco cigarettes Use duration (years) 0.19*** −0.03 - 0.34***
Days smoked/week (past 30d) 0.02 −0.03 0.34*** -
Cigarettes/day 0.01 −0.12* 0.52*** 0.64***
Cigarettes/day prior to e-cigarettes 0.01 0.11* 0.53*** 0.41***
Cigarettes/day change score −0.01 −0.37*** −0.13* 0.11*
Days smoked/week prior to e-cigarettes 0.05* 0.19*** 0.36*** 0.62***
Days smoked/week change score 0.02 −0.22*** 0.03 0.52***
Estimated puffs/bout −0.02 −0.01 0.20*** 0.20***
FTCD score 0.02 0.05* 0.43*** 0.43***

Note FTCD = Fagerström Test for Cigarette Dependence. Change score = current use minus use prior to e-cigarette initiation.

*

p < .05;

**

p < .01;

***

p < .001