Table 2.
Details of smoking cessation attempts and methods, as well as characteristics of cigarette use for survey responders
| Current smoker, n = 205 (%) |
Former smoker, n = 42 (%) |
P | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ever tried to quita | 170 (85) | 39 (100) | 0.001 |
| No. methods trieda | |||
| 0 | 1 (0.6) | 0 (0) | |
| 1 | 149 (84) | 35 (90) | |
| 2 | 15 (8) | 4 (10) | |
| 3 | 9 (5) | 0 (0) | |
| 4 | 3 (2) | 0 (0) | 0.6 |
| Interested in talking to doctor about quitting (%)* | 97 (49) | 1 (3) | <0.0001 |
| Years since quit (mean/SD) | — | 8.3 (10.8) | N/A |
| Age started smoking, y (mean/SD) | 18.3 (6.6) | 17.3 (4.3) | 0.4 |
| Cigarettes per day at last use (mean/SD) | 11.2 (8.4) | 19.2 (13.5) | <0.0001 |
N/A, not applicable; SD, standard deviation.
a
Percentages are reported on the nonmissing totals.