Table 1.
Sample Summary
| Characteristic | Recent quitters | Long-term quitters | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percenta | Count | Percenta | Count | Percenta | |
| Age (y) | ||||||
| 18–24 | 273 | 18.5 | 278 | 11.8 | 551 | 14.3 |
| 25–44 | 914 | 43.0 | 1,598 | 44.9 | 2,512 | 44.2 |
| 45–64 | 738 | 31.3 | 1,348 | 33.6 | 2,086 | 32.7 |
| 65+ | 201 | 7.3 | 438 | 9.8 | 639 | 8.9 |
| Gender | ||||||
| Male | 1,054 | 54.5 | 1,812 | 53.1 | 2,866 | 53.3 |
| Female | 1,072 | 46.5 | 1,850 | 46.9 | 2,922 | 46.7 |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 1,776 | 78.7 | 3,121 | 80.8 | 4,897 | 80.0 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 176 | 10.5 | 266 | 8.9 | 442 | 9.5 |
| Hispanic | 174 | 10.8 | 275 | 10.3 | 449 | 10.5 |
| Highest level of education | ||||||
| High school or less | 996 | 47.8 | 1,607 | 43.4 | 2,603 | 45.0 |
| Some college or higher | 1,130 | 52.2 | 2,055 | 56.6 | 3,185 | 55.0 |
| Marital status | ||||||
| Married | 930 | 41.4 | 1,876 | 49.2 | 2,806 | 46.3 |
| Widowed, divorced, or separated | 554 | 24.0 | 882 | 21.8 | 1,436 | 22.6 |
| Never married | 642 | 34.6 | 904 | 29.0 | 1,546 | 31.1 |
| Labor force status | ||||||
| Employed | 1,280 | 59.8 | 2,309 | 64.0 | 3,589 | 62.5 |
| Unemployed | 195 | 11.3 | 277 | 8.5 | 472 | 9.5 |
| Not in labor force | 651 | 28.8 | 1,076 | 27.5 | 1,727 | 28.0 |
| Region | ||||||
| Northeast | 441 | 18.1 | 736 | 17.2 | 1,177 | 17.6 |
| Midwest | 582 | 24.5 | 1,056 | 26.1 | 1,638 | 25.5 |
| South | 487 | 35.1 | 1,110 | 36.5 | 1,726 | 36.0 |
| West | 2,126 | 22.3 | 760 | 20.1 | 1,247 | 20.9 |
| Metropolitan status | ||||||
| Metropolitan | 1,648 | 84.3 | 2,778 | 81.9 | 4,426 | 82.8 |
| Non-metropolitan | 478 | 15.7 | 884 | 18.1 | 1,362 | 17.2 |
| Survey modea | ||||||
| Telephone | 1,370 | 61.7 | 2,470 | 66.5 | 3,840 | 64.7 |
| Personal visit | 744 | 38.3 | 1,179 | 33.5 | 1,923 | 35.3 |
| Visiting a doctora | ||||||
| Did not visit a doctor | 668 | 34.9 | 1,275 | 37.9 | 1,943 | 36.8 |
| Visited a doctor | 1,458 | 65.1 | 2,387 | 62.1 | 3,845 | 63.2 |
| Smoking the first cigarette within 30 minutes of awakeninga | ||||||
| No | 1,075 | 54.7 | 1,871 | 54.5 | 2,946 | 54.6 |
| Yes | 962 | 45.3 | 1,644 | 45.5 | 2,606 | 45.4 |
| SADa Mean (SE), y | 0.33 (0.01) | 2.00 (0.02) | 1.38 (0.02) | |||
| Sample size (population count) | 2,126 (2,880, 444) | 3,662 (4,850, 427) | 5,788 (7,730, 871) | |||
SAD = smoking abstinence duration.
aPercentages are based on the population counts; Survey mode was unknown for 25 respondents; Visiting a doctor refers to visiting a medical doctor or dentist in the past 12 months prior to the last quit attempt; Smoking within 30 minutes of awakening was unknown for 236 respondents.