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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychooncology. 2017 Aug 4;27(2):471–476. doi: 10.1002/pon.4483

Table 2.

Cancer-related disease factors predicting 12-week smoking cessation outcomes.

Variable (referent) Medication adherence Counseling adherence Abstinence

OR (95% CI) p-value OR (95% CI) p-value OR (95% CI) p-value
Sex (female) 1.05 (0.48-2.29) .901 0.95 (0.41-2.22) .912 0.70 (0.28-1.75) .447
Race/ethnicity (minority) 0.98 (0.43-2.22) .954 0.78 (0.31-1.95) .595 2.85 (1.05-7.73) .040
Age, 1 year 1.02 (0.98-1.07) .356 0.98 (0.94-1.03) .490 1.04 (0.99-1.10) .121
Education (≤ high school degree) 1.37 (0.55-3.37) .499 0.83 (0.30-2.27) .720 0.52 (0.18-1.52) .232
Employment status
(unemployed/retired)
0.65 (0.29-1.46) .300 0.84 (0.35-2.00) .686 0.73 (0.29-1.85) .504
Nicotine dependence, FTND score 0.98 (0.82-1.18) .828 0.92 (0.75-1.12) .408 0.76 (0.60-0.95) .016
Medication adherence
(nonadherent)
4.58 (1.66-12.68) .003
Counseling adherence
(nonadherent)
4.53 (1.07-19.20) .040
Tumor site
(not tobacco-related)
1.25 (0.50-3.11) .629 1.05 (0.38-2.86) .929 1.99 (0.69-5.74) .205
Cancer treatment
(no current treatment)
1.53 (0.72-3.23) .268 1.16 (0.52-2.60) .718 1.14 (0.47-2.75) .775
Time since diagnosis, 30 days 1.00 (0.98-1.02) .933 0.99 (0.97-1.01) .393 1.00 (0.98-1.03) .743
Health-related quality of life, SF-12 score 1.08 (1.01-1.16) .019 1.07 (0.99-1.14) .080 1.06 (0.98-1.15) .176

Bold indicates significance at p<.05. Abbreviations: OR, odds ratio. CI, confidence interval. FTND, Fagerström Test of Nicotine Dependence. SF-12, 12-item Short Form Health Survey.