Table 3.
Associations between the 5 groups of daily nicotine users and other measures
| A: Exclusive Daily smoker |
Concurrent use (% concurrent) | E: Exclusive Daily vaper |
Significance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B: Pre- dominant Smoker 68.4% |
C: Dual daily user 23.6% |
D: Pre- dominant vaper 8.0% |
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| Total Raw (weighted)% | 65.8 (81.1) | 15.8 (6.3) | 10.9 (3.7) | 2.6 (1.0) | 5.0 (7.9) | |
| % Female | 44.1 | 49.8 | 46.1 | 39.2 | 48.7 | A-B: p<0.003 B-D: NS D-E: NS |
| Age: 18–24 | 11.5 | 12.3 | 13.3 | 16.1 | 9.7 | A-B: p=0.04 B-D: NS D-E: NS |
| 25–39 | 28.6 | 28.2 | 32.1 | 26.0 | 22.4 | |
| 40–54 | 29.9 | 33.8 | 32.6 | 27.0 | 32.1 | |
| 55 + | 30.0 | 25.8 | 22.1 | 31.0 | 35.9 | |
| Socioeconomic status (SES): Low |
38.0 |
36.5 |
35.0 |
37.9 |
25.7 |
A-B: NS B-D: NS D-E: NS |
| Medium | 29.9 | 29.8 | 27.1 | 28.3 | 34.1 | |
| High | 32.1 | 33.7 | 37.8 | 33.7 | 40.3 | |
| Uses a tank system | NA | 56.2 | 56.5 | 76.9 | 84.5 | B-D: p<.0001 D-E: NS |
| Time to first nicotine: <= 5 minutes | 19.1 | 21.2 | 23.8 | 15.3 | 30.0 | A-B: p=.003 B-D: NS D-E: p=.01 |
| Rates quitting as very or extremely hard | 48.1 | 50.7 | 43.7 | 32.2 | 29.4 | A-B: NS B-D: p<.0001 D-E: NS |
| Reports no or only slight urge to smoke in last day | 14.2 | 8.6 | 11.9 | 33.6 | 93.1 | A-B: p<.0001 B-D: p<.0001 D-E: p<.0001 |
| Made a quit attempt in the previous year | 47.5 | 60.3 | 63.8 | 73.9 | N/A | A-B: p<.0001 B-D: p=.009 |
| Plans to quit in the next 6 months | 33.7 | 43.9 | 49.1 | 50.6 | N/A | A-B: p<.0001 B-D: NS |
| Has vaped daily >= 1 year | N/A | N/A | 36.6 | 41.9 | 63.4 | C-D: NS D-E: p=.0002 |
| Reports vaping less satisfying than smoking | N/A | 76.6 | 52.6 | 38.3 | 26.7 | B-D: p<.0001 D-E: NS |
| Probably or definitely plans to vape in future | 15.3 | 63.1 | 74.7 | 64.0 | 58.2 | A-B: p<.0001 B-D: p<.0001 D-E: NS |
| Believes vaping less addictive than smoking | 29.5 | 56.6 | 57.2 | 55.3 | 59.1 | A-B: p<.0001 B-D: NS D-E: NS |
| Believes vaping less harmful than smoking | 52.2 | 74.6 | 70.2 | 83.9 | 94.1 | A-B: p<.0001 B-D: p<.0001 D-E: p=.0009 |
| Believe switching to vaping will improve health a lot | 15.8 | 29.9 | 34.0 | 40.1 | 69.2 | A-B: p<.0001 B-D: NS D-E: p<.0001 |
| Society disapproves of smoking (agrees) | 80.5 | 78.3 | 65.5 | 82.2 | 91.3 | A-B: p=.0007 B-D: p<.0001 D-E: p<.0001 |
| Society approves of vaping (agrees) | 20.2 | 34.1 | 39.2 | 34.0 | 32.5 | A-B: p<.0001 B-D: p=.002 D-E: NS |
| Positive overall opinion of vaping | 11.5 | 35.4 | 52.8 | 57.5 | 72.3 | A-B: p<.0001 B-D: p<.0001 D-E: p=.002 |
| Positive overall opinion of smoking? | 9.7 | 13.3 | 18.4 | 3.6 | 2.6 | A-B: p<.0001 B-D: p<.0001 D-E: NS |