Table 2.
Baseline characteristics of patients According to treatment group and receipt of the “as-intended” intervention.
| Baseline characteristic | Intervention n (%) |
Control n (%) | P-value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treated “as-intended” | Not treated “as-intended” | Treated vs. not treated “as-intended” | |||
| N | 160 | 58 | 233 | ||
| Sex | Male | 103 (64.4) | 32 (55.2) | 151 (64.8) | 0.216 |
| Female | 57 (35.6) | 26 (44.8) | 82 (35.2) | ||
| Age, mean (SD) | 44.84 (14.84) | 42.31 (14.32) | 47.36 (14.63) | 0.262 | |
| Education | Elementary school | 29 (19.3) | 9 (17.0) | 49 (23.4) | 0.831 |
| Secondary | 92 (61.3) | 35 (66.0) | 125 (59.8) | ||
| Post-secondary | 29 (19.3) | 9 (17.0) | 35 (16.7) | ||
| Occupation | Employed full-time | 110 (69.6) | 30 (52.6) | 132 (60.8) | 0.070 |
| Self-employed | 12 (7.6) | 7 (12.3) | 21 (9.7) | ||
| Not employed | 36 (22.8) | 20 (35.1) | 64 (29.5) | ||
| Readiness to quit | Pre-contemplation | 131 (81.9) | 42 (72.4) | 178 (82.4) | 0.127 |
| Contemplation/Preparation | 29 (18.1) | 16 (27.6) | 38 (17.6) | ||
| Duration of tobacco use in years mean (SD) | 24.31 (13.91) | 20.84 (13.76) | 25.72 (13.95) | 0.104 | |
| Time to tobacco use after awakening | <=30 min | 93 (58.1) | 37 (63.8) | 122 (56.5) | 0.451 |
| >30 min | 67 (41.9) | 21 (36.2) | 94 (43.5) | ||
| Daily cigarettes/snus pouches or both for dual users | <=10 | 80 (50.0) | 34 (58.6) | 117 (52.0) | 0.260 |
| >10 | 80 (50.0) | 24 (41.4) | 108 (48.0) | ||
| 24-h previous quit attempts | None | 15 (9.4) | 11 (19.0) | 34 (15.1) | 0.054 |
| At least one | 145 (90.6) | 47 (81.0) | 191 (84.9) | ||
| Chronic diagnosis | Yes | 24 (15.0) | 6 (10.3) | 38 (17.5) | 0.378 |
| No | 136 (85.0) | 52 (89.7) | 179 (82.5) | ||
Note. Numbers may not sum up to the total because of missing values. Data is missing for the following variables: Education 8.6% (n = 39), Occupation 4.2% (n = 19), Readiness to quit 4.0% (n = 18), Duration of tobacco use 2.2% (n = 10), Time to tobacco use after awakening 3.8% (n = 17), Daily cigarettes/snus pouches1.8% (n = 8), 24-h previous quit attempts 1.8% (n = 8), Chronic diagnosis 3.5% (n = 16).