Table 2.
Socio-demographic and smoking characteristics of serious SF28 quitters (“I plan to make a serious quit attempt”): iOS and Android users
| Characteristics | Users making a serious quit attempt n = 1001 |
iOS users n = 779 |
Android users n = 222 |
p value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (in years), mean (SD) | 33.4 (9.5) | 33.3 (9.3) | 34.1 (10.3) | p = 0.238 |
| Weekly spend on cigarettes (in £s), mean (SD) | 36.4 (23.7) | 36.3 (23.8) | 36.9 (23.6) | p = 0.753 |
| Cigarettes smoked per day, mean (SD) | 16.3 (7.5) | 16.4 (7.4) | 16.3 (8.0) | p = 0.839 |
| Women, % (n) | 66.9 (660) | 68.8 (529) | 60.1(131) | p = 0.016 |
| Social grade, % (n) | ||||
| Manual | 31.3 (249) | 30.7 (190) | 33.5 (59) | p = 0.102 |
| Non-manual | 38 (302) | 39.9 (247) | 31.2 (55) | |
| Other | 30.7 (244) | 29.4 (182) | 35.2 (62) | |
| Time since the most recent quit attempt, % (n) | ||||
| No previous quit attempt | 10.8 (96) | 10.6 (73) | 11.6 (23) | p < 0.001 |
| Over a year ago | 28.8 (255) | 25.6 (176) | 39.9 (79) | |
| In the last year | 60.4 (535) | 63.8 (439) | 48.5 (96) | |
| Choice of medication, % (n) | ||||
| No medication | 63.3 (634) | 67.9 (529) | 47.3 (105) | p < 0.001 |
| Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) | 26.8 (268) | 27.1 (211) | 25.7 (57) | |
| Varenicline | 9.9 (99) | 5 (39) | 27 (60) | |
| Quit date set, % (n) | ||||
| On the day of registration | 61.3 (592) | 65.6 (493) | 46.5 (99) | p < 0.001 |
| In future from the day of registration | 38.7 (373) | 34.4 (259) | 53.5 (114) | |
| Before the day of registration | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |
Missing data: gender n = 14, social grade n = 206, time since the most recent quit attempt n = 115 and quit date set n = 36