Table 1.
Sample and smoking-related characteristics
| Characteristic | N | % |
| Total | 1766 | 100.0 |
| Age group (years) | ||
| 16–19 | 413 | 23.4 |
| 20–24 | 401 | 22.7 |
| 25–34 | 952 | 53.9 |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 888 | 50.3 |
| Female | 878 | 49.7 |
| Educational qualifications | ||
| Other qualifications | 1357 | 76.8 |
| None or GCSE | 409 | 23.2 |
| Economic status | ||
| Other status | 1350 | 76.4 |
| Routine or manual occupation, unemployed or long-term sick | 416 | 23.6 |
| Socioeconomic status (SES) | ||
| No indicators of low SES | 1114 | 63.1 |
| Low education and/or low SES | 652 | 36.9 |
| Ethnicity | ||
| White British | 1264 | 71.6 |
| White non-British | 162 | 9.2 |
| Black (including mixed black and white) | 79 | 4.5 |
| Asian (including mixed Asian and white) | 196 | 11.1 |
| Other or not declared | 65 | 3.7 |
| Location | ||
| England | 1550 | 87.8 |
| Scotland | 109 | 6.2 |
| Wales | 73 | 4.1 |
| Northern Ireland | 34 | 1.9 |
| Tobacco products used | ||
| Only factory-made (packet) cigarettes | 813 | 46.0 |
| Factory-made and roll-your-own cigarettes | 681 | 38.6 |
| Factory-made cigarettes and other products (eg, cigars and shisha) | 272 | 15.4 |
| Cigarettes per day | ||
| 10 or less | 1272 | 72.0 |
| 11–20 | 433 | 24.5 |
| 21–30 | 46 | 2.6 |
| 31 or more | 15 | 0.8 |
| Time to first cigarette | ||
| Within 5 min | 263 | 14.9 |
| 6–30 min | 570 | 32.3 |
| 31–60 min | 315 | 17.8 |
| After 60 min | 618 | 35.0 |
| Heaviness of Smoking Index (HSI) | ||
| 0 little dependence | 601 | 34.0 |
| 1 | 257 | 14.6 |
| 2 | 418 | 23.7 |
| 3 | 293 | 16.6 |
| 4 | 156 | 8.8 |
| 5 | 28 | 1.6 |
| 6 high dependence | 13 | 0.7 |
| Dependence (tertiles of HSI) | ||
| Low dependence | 601 | 34.0 |
| Mid-dependence | 675 | 38.2 |
| High dependence | 490 | 27.7 |
| Made an attempt to quit smoking that lasted at least 24 hours? | ||
| Yes, within the last 6 months | 788 | 44.6 |
| Yes, more than 6 months ago | 552 | 31.3 |
| No, I have never tried to quit smoking for more than 24 hours | 426 | 24.1 |
| How likely are you to try to quit smoking within the next 6 months? | ||
| Not at all | 198 | 11.2 |
| A little | 382 | 21.6 |
| Moderately | 508 | 28.8 |
| Very | 308 | 17.4 |
| Extremely | 272 | 15.4 |
| Don’t know | 98 | 5.5 |
| If you decided to quit smoking in the next 6 months, how sure are you that you would succeed? | ||
| Not at all | 147 | 8.3 |
| A little | 346 | 19.6 |
| Moderately | 612 | 34.7 |
| Very | 297 | 16.8 |
| Extremely | 241 | 13.6 |
| Don’t know | 123 | 7.0 |
| Quit approach | ||
| Moderately or less likely to make quit attempt in next 6 months (unlikely to make a quit attempt in the next 6 months). |
1186 | 67.2 |
| Very or extremely likely to attempt but moderately or less likely to succeed (unlikely to make a successful quit attempt in the next 6 months). |
304 | 17.2 |
| Very or extremely likely to attempt and very or extremely likely to succeed (likely to make a successful quit attempt in the next 6 months). |
276 | 15.6 |
GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education.