Table 2.
Characteristics of Study Patients, by Project*
| Characteristic | All | Oregon | New York | Alabama | Kansas | Mass |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = 4,660 | N = 900 | N = 1,330 | N = 979 | N = 1,054 | N = 397 | |
| Age, M (SD) | 49 (13) | 53 (13) | 48 (13) | 45 (13) | 49 (13) | 53 (12) |
| Sex, % male | 57 | 46 | 78 | 54 | 45 | 49 |
| Race/ethnicity, % | ||||||
| Non-Hispanic white | 53 | 71 | 22 | 55 | 65 | 81 |
| Non-Hispanic black | 25 | 9 | 32 | 42 | 24 | 4 |
| Hispanic | 13 | 5 | 34 | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| Other | 9 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| Education, % | ||||||
| Less than high school | 20 | 12 | 25 | 22 | 22 | 12 |
| High school diploma/GED | 34 | 31 | 28 | 38 | 36 | 39 |
| Some college | 34 | 42 | 32 | 32 | 33 | 32 |
| College graduate | 12 | 14 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 16 |
| Married, % | 34 | 46 | 22 | 31 | 37 | 50 |
| Health insurance, % | ||||||
| Commercial | 27 | 52 | 6 | 20 | 29 | 48 |
| Medicare | 22 | 23 | 11 | 25 | 30 | 27 |
| Medicaid | 21 | 9 | 20 | 22 | 34 | 14 |
| Self-pay/none | 13 | 4 | 17 | 29 | 6 | 3 |
| VA/other public | 11 | 0 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Missing | 7 | 12 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Cigarettes/day, mean (SD) | 14 (10) | 13 (9) | 12 (10) | 13 (10) | 16 (11) | 17 (10) |
| Admitted from emergency room, % | 61 | 18 | 76 | 76 | 60 | 74 |
| Post-discharge plan for smoking, %a | ||||||
| Stay quit | 42 | 64 | 28 | — | 44 | 33 |
| Try to quit | 50 | 30 | 54 | 56 | 67 | |
| Do not know | 6 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Do not plan to quit | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
GED = General Educational Development certificate; VA = Veterans’ Administration; CHART = Consortium of Hospitals Advancing Research on Tobacco.
aThe New York CHART project enrolled all hospitalized smokers, regardless of intention to quit after discharge. This variable was not available in the Alabama data. The other three sites required smokers to plan to quit after discharge.
* p < .0001 for differences across sites for every variable in the table.