Table 3.
Demographic characteristics of the sample
| Per cent | |
|---|---|
| Gender | |
| Male | 55.6 |
| Female | 44.4 |
| Education | |
| Up to year 12 | 30.9 |
| Tertiary education and above | 69.1 |
| Socioeconomic status* | |
| Low | 34.2 |
| Mid | 44.3 |
| High | 21.5 |
| Number of years smoking | |
| ≤5 | 35.8 |
| ≥6 | 64.2 |
| Readiness to quit | |
| Contemplators/preparers | 28.4 |
| Precontemplators | 71.6 |
| Mean (SD) | |
| Age | 28.41 (6.43) |
| Heaviness of smoking† | 2.20 (1.35) |
| Level of craving‡ | 3.65 (1.25) |
*n=79 due to missing data on this variable.
†Three participants responded ‘don't know’ to the question assessing time to first cigarette. As this variable is combined with the number of daily cigarettes category-level variable to calculate HSI, the category for number of daily cigarettes was imputed for the time to first cigarette score.
‡Response options were 1 ‘Not at all’, 2 ‘Hardly at all’, 3 ‘A little’, 4 ‘Somewhat’, 5 ‘Quite a bit’, 6 ‘A great deal’ and ‘Don't know/can't say’.