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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Med. 2016 May 3;89:90–97. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.05.002

Table 2. Participant characteristics within and across studies.

Overall (N = 8,315) STOMP (N = 1,705) Text2Quit (N = 503) SMS USA (N = 164) SMS Turkey (N = 151) txt2stop (N = 5,792)
Treatment Control Treatment Control Treatment Control Treatment Control Treatment Control Treatment Control
N =
4,202
N = 4,113 N = 852 N = 853 N = 262 N = 241 N = 101 N = 63 N = 76 N = 75 N = 2,911 N = 2,881
Smoking behavior M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD)
 Age 33.6 (11.51) 33.66 (11.61) 24.86 (8.78) 24.64 (8.63) 35.85 (10.72) 35.53 (10.6) 21.63 (2.11) 21.56 (2.12) 36.13 (9.51) 35.64 (10.31) 36.31 (10.98) 36.38 (11.09)
 Previous quit attempts 4.58 (8.17) 4.35 (7.86) 3.04 (2.55) 2.78 (2.42) 5.34 (7.07) 6.89 (16.14) 3.66 (1.61) 2.62 (1.69) 2.38 (1.51) 2.36 (1.53) 5.06 (9.42) 4.67 (7.94)
 Fagerstrom score 4.63 (2.42) 4.62 (2.44) 4.6 (2.16) 4.52 (2.23) 5.36 (2.28) 5.3 (2.33) 3.92 (2.06) 3.83 (2.23) 1.87 (1.25) 1.96 (1.49) 4.67 (2.48) 4.68 (2.48)
Demographic characteristics n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
 Female 2062 (49.1) 1995 (48.5) 500 (58.7) 497 (58.3) 180 (68.7) 150 (62.8) 44 (43.6) 28 (44.4) 35 (46) 24 (32) 1303 (44.8) 1296 (45)
 SES
  Low 1872 (44.6) 1830 (44.5) 364 (42.7) 349 (40.9) 165 (63) 152 (63.1) 46 (45.5) 32 (50.8) 23 (30.3) 37 (49.3) 1274 (43.8) 1260 (43.7)
  High 2109 (50.2) 2068 (50.3) 267 (31.3) 289 (33.9) 97 (37) 89 (36.9) 55 (54.5) 31 (49.2) 53 (69.7) 38 (50.7) 1637 (56.2) 1621 (56.3)
  Missing 221 (5.3) 215 (5.2) 221 (25.9) 215 (25.2) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Smoking outcomes n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
 4 weeks (PP)
  Quit smoking 1200 (28.6) 507 (12.3) 243 (28.5) 109 (12.8) 80 (30.5) 35 (14.5) 44 (43.6) 17 (27) 13 (17.1) 12 (16) 820 (28.2) 334 (11.6)
  Smoking 2794 (66.5) 3441 (83.7) 563 (66.1) 709 (83.1) 133 (50.8) 183 (75.9) 43 (42.6) 38 (60.3) 46 (60.5) 48 (64) 2009 (69) 2463 (85.5)
  Missing 208 (5.0) 165 (4.0) 46 (5.4) 35 (4.1) 49 (18.7) 23 (9.5) 14 (13.9) 8 (12.7) 17 (22.3) 15 (20) 82 (2.8) 84 (2.9)
 3 months (PP) N = 1,291 N = 1,232
  Quit smoking 380 (29.4) 231 (18.8) 247 (29) 160 (18.8) 87 (33.2) 48 (19.9) 36 (35.6) 19 (30.2) 10 (13.2) 4 (5.3) NA NA
  Smoking 691 (53.5) 842 (68.3) 499 (58.6) 628 (73.6) 123 (47.0) 159 (66.0) 45 (44.6) 32 (50.8) 24 (31.6) 23 (30.7) NA NA
  Missing 220 (17.0) 159 (12.9) 106 (12.4) 65 (7.6) 52 (19.8) 34 (14.1) 20 (19.8) 12 (19) 42 (55.3) 48 (64) NA NA

NA = not applicable; measures are not available.