Table 1.

Comparison of the distribution of successful and unsuccessful quitters across the categories of the potential factors.

Variables	Successful quitters		Unsuccessful quitters
	n	%	n	%
Socio-demographic characteristics
Age (yr)
55 and above	239	60.8	154	39.2
45–54	101	34.0	196	66.0
35–44	82	21.1	306	78.9
25–34	48	14.0	295	86.0
15–24	24	18.3	107	81.7
Gender
Male	447	30.2	1031	69.8
Female	47	63.5	27	36.5
Place of residence
Urban	256	31.9	547	68.1
Rural	238	31.8	511	68.2
Wealth index
Highest	116	41.3	165	58.7
High	99	30.7	223	69.3
Middle	87	31.5	189	68.5
Lowest	97	26.7	266	73.3
Low	95	30.6	215	69.4
Level of education
Secondary and above	95	40.3	141	59.7
Less than secondary	75	29.6	178	70.4
Primary	51	35.2	94	64.8
Less than primary	71	28.0	183	72.0
No formal education	202	30.4	462	69.6
Occupation
Employed	64	28.3	162	71.7
Business	92	28.7	229	71.3
Farmers	95	31.7	205	68.3
Laborers	123	23.7	396	76.3
Student	4	50.0	4	50.0
Homemaker	34	69.4	15	30.6
Unemployed	81	63.3	47	36.7
Missing	1	100
Belief about health effect of smoking
Believe that smoking causes serious illness
Yes	489	32.4	1021	67.6
No	3	9.7	28	90.3
Missing	2	18.2	9	81.8
Believe that cigarettes are addictive
Yes	456	32.2	960	67.8
No	33	27.0	89	73.0
Missing	5	35.7	9	64.3
Environmental characteristic
Smoking rules inside home
Allowed	58	16.6	291	83.4
Not allowed, but exceptions	98	32.9	200	67.1
Never allowed	201	45.8	238	54.2
No rules	137	29.4	329	70.6