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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Tob Control. 2016 Apr 12;26(2):202–209. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052783

Table 2.

Quit Attempts and Abstinence

No. (%) of Participants

Snus
(n=626)
Control
(n=610)
Relative Risk
(95% CI)
Risk Difference
(95% CI)
p-value
Any Quit Attempt, ever within study 161 (25.7) 188 (30.8) 0.83 (0.70 – 1.00) .05 (0.0008 – 0.10) .05
Any 24-hr Quit Attempt, ever within study 124 (19.8) 156 (25.6) 0.77 (0.63 – 0.95) .06 (0.01 – 0.10) .02
Floating Abstinencea 93 (14.9) 99 (16.2) 0.92 (0.71 – 1.19) .01 (−0.03 – 0.05) .5
Week 32 PPAb 39 (6.2) 34 (5.6) 1.12 (0.72 – 1.75) .006 (−0.02 – 0.03 .6
Week 58 PPAb 32 (5.1) 34 (5.6) 0.92 (0.27 – 1.47) .005 (−0.02 – 0.03) .7

Notes:

a

Floating Abstinence: Any 7-day period of non-smoking, ever within study

b

PPA: Point prevalence