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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Med. 2017 Apr 4;104:86–91. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.04.001

Table 2.

Nicotine Dependence Outcomes by Group

E-cigarette Users
N=156
Cigarette Smokers
N=3430

Do you consider yourself addicted to cigarettes/e-cigarettes?*
No 38 (22.8) 204 (6.0)
Yes 118 (77.2) 3226 (94.0)

Do you ever have strong cravings to smoke cigarettes/use e-cigarettes?*
No 46 (27.2) 437 (13.1)
Yes 110 (72.8) 2993 (86.9)

In the past 12 months, did you find it difficult to keep from smoking cigarettes/using e-cigarettes in places where it was prohibited?*
No 148 (94.4) 2449 (71.4)
Yes 8 (5.6) 981 (28.6)

Have you ever felt like you really needed to smoke cigarettes/use e-cigarettes?*
No 43 (28.5) 379 (11.6)
Yes 113 (71.5) 3051 (88.5)

Time-to-First-Use
Within 5 Minutes 21 (15.1) 825 (24.0)
      6–30 Minutes 77 (49.4) 1541 (44.7)
    31–60 Minutes 39 (24.6) 643 (19.2)
       > 60 Minutes 19 (10.9) 421 (12.1)

Unweighted frequency (Weighted Column Percent)

*

P < 0.0001 (Rao-Scott Chi-Square test).