Table 3.

Characteristics of participants lost to follow-up in comparison to the completed cases (N = 79).

Variables	Completed Cases Mean (SD) or n (%) N = 65	Loss to Follow Up Mean (SD) or n (%) N = 14	Significance (p-Value)
Age (in years)	43.0 (10.4)	44.1 (11.9)	0.74
Marital Status
Married	52 (80)	12 (85.8)
Divorced	3 (4.6)	1 (7.1)
Never married	10 (15.4)	1 (7.1)
Schooling (in years)	14.6 (3.2)	15.1 (6.5)	0.81
Employment
Working for pay	53 (81.6)	9 (64.3)
Unemployed and looking for work	8 (12.4)	4 (28.6)
Temporarily laid off or on leave	1 (1.5 )	0 (0 )
Disabled/Unable to work	1 (1.5)	0 (0)
Retired	1 (1.5)	0 (0)
Student	1 (1.5)	1 (7.1)
Age when moved to the US	30.6 (13.8)	22.9 (11.7)	0.79
Number of daily smoked cigarettes	20.3 (9.2)	17.3 (8.7)	0.29
Number of cigarettes smoked in the past week	162.5 (85.9)	125.2 (68.6)	0.15
Number of attempts made to quit smoking	5.8 (13.6)	1.5 (1.2)	0.05
Number of quitting attempts in the past 2 years	1.95 (6.2)	0.7 (0.6)	0.2
Serious quitting attempts
I never had a serious attempt to quit	26 (40.0)	3 (21.4)
I called a quit line	3 (4.6)	3 (21.4)
I quit cold turkey without any help or preparation	27 (41.5)	3 (21.4)
I quit cold turkey but I had it well planned and I set a quit date	8 (12.4)	4 (28.7)
Medication used for smoking cessation (Nicotine gum, patch, pills)	1 (1.5)	1 (7.1)
Description of the last quitting attempt			0.87
Very difficult	23 (35.4)	4 (28.6)
Difficult	16 (24.6)	5 (35.7)
Easy	13 (20.0)	2 (14.3)
Never tried	13 (20.0)	3 (21.4)
Exhaled CO	21.9 (8.0)	21.9 (9.6)	0.85
Categories of Exhaled CO
7–10 Danger Zone	3 (4.6)	1 (7.1)
11–15 Smoker	12 (18.4)	3 (21.4)
16–25 Frequent smoker	33 (50.8)	5 (35.7)
26–35 Addicted smoker	12 (18.5)	3 (21.4)
36–50 Heavily Addicted Smoker	5 (7.7)	2 (14.3)
Total score of Fagerstrom Nicotine Dependence	12 (2.9)	11.7 (2.7)	0.76
Total score of Smoking Self-Efficacy Scale	11.1 (6.2)	16.4 (13.7)	0.21