Table 1.

Gutkha Users

		N	%	Association with age	Association with occupation	Association with education
Chewing gutkha can cause health hazards like cancer	Strongly agree	125	34.0%
	Agree	177	48.1%
	Disagree	52	14.1%
	Strongly disagree	14	3.8%
Awareness on ban	Aware	181	49.2%	0.004*	<0.001*	0.016*
	Unaware	187	50.8%
Source of information about the ban	Tobacco vendors	25	13.8%	0.008*	<0.001*	0.056*
	Newspapers	83	45.8%
	Friends	23	12.8%
	Electronic media	43	23.8%
	Don’t know	7	3.8%
Availability of gutkha at shops	Available	229	62.2%
	Not available	139	37.8%
Switched to other tobacco products	Yes	110	29.9%	0.002*	<0.001*	0.002*
	No	258	70.1%
Other tobacco products	Pan	17	15.4%	0.022*	<0.001*	0.067
	Mawa	57	51.8%
	Khaini	22	20.0%
	Others	14	12.8%
Availability in separate sachets	Available	363	98.6%
	Not available	5	1.4%
Is it feel the same	Yes	28	7.6%
	No	340	92.4%
Tried to quit gutkha	Yes	300	81.5%	0.01*	0.01*	0.018*
	No	68	18.5%
Reasons which stopped users from quitting	Addiction	99	33.0%	0.005*	<0.001*	0.018*
	Friends	79	26.4%
	Pleasure	81	27.0%
	Others	41	13.6%
reasons which can make users quit gutkha	Non availability	84	22.8%	0.077	0.021*	0.48
	Increased cost	70	19.0%
	increased awareness about ban	69	18.8%
	Awareness of health hazards	89	24.2%
	Must know by themselves	56	15.2%

^*p-value <0.005