Table 4.
Patterns of responding among non-daily nicotine users
| A: Non- daily smoker |
B: Non- daily vaper |
C: Concurrent non-daily |
Sig | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| % Female | 39.7 | 45.3 | 46.3 | A-C: NS |
| Age: 18–24 | 15.9 | 15.5 | 24.4 | A-C: NS |
| 25–39 | 42.6 | 38.0 | 42.1 | |
| 40–54 | 24.7 | 27.5 | 20.9 | |
| 55 + | 16.8 | 18.9 | 12.6 | |
| Socioeconomic Status (SES): Low | 24.0 | 16.9 | 24.1 | A-C: p<.05 |
| Medium | 28.6 | 20.3 | 31.1 | |
| High | 47.4 | 62.8 | 44.8 | |
| Uses a tank system to vape | NA | 49.9 | 36.4 | NS |
| No or only slight urges to smoke in the last day | 60.6 | 82.5 | 42.8 | A-C: p<.0001 |
| Plans to quit in next 6 months | 50.6 | N/A | 53.2 | NS |
| Probably or definitely plans to vape in future | 11.2 | 39.5 | 43.0 | A-C: p<.0001 |
| Believes vaping less satisfying than smoking | N/A | 44.8 | 46.7 | NS |
| Believes vaping less addictive than smoking | 29.5 | 66.6 | 51.3 | A-C: p<.0001 |
| Believes vaping less harmful than smoking | 52.8 | 81.3 | 60.9 | A-C: p<.0001 |
| Society disapproves of smoking (agrees) | 80.5 | 88.7 | 63.5 | A-C: p<.0001 |
| Society approves of vaping (agrees) | 18.2 | 37.1 | 31.9 | A-C: p=.002 |
| Positive overall opinion of vaping | 10.9 | 34.1 | 30.8 | A-C: p<.0001 |
| Positive overall opinion of smoking | 7.2 | 2.8 | 10.7 | A-C: p<.0001 |