Table 1:
Baseline demographics and smoking behaviors
| Never smokers | Former smokers |
Current smokers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quit ≤ 15 years ago | Quit > 15 years ago | |||
| (n=1,500) | (n=413) | (n=1,113) | (n=502) | |
| Gender | ||||
| % Women | 65.8 | 45.5 | 38.0 | 45.2 |
| Race/Ethnicity | ||||
| % White | 69.4 | 74.1 | 77.5 | 65.1 |
| % Black | 15.0 | 15.5 | 12.6 | 24.3 |
| % Hispanic, non-black | 13.0 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 8.4 |
| % Other | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 2.2 |
| Education | ||||
| % < High school | 21.6 | 27.1 | 17.6 | 27.5 |
| % High school/equivalent | 24.7 | 29.5 | 24.4 | 31.2 |
| % Vocational/Associates/Some college | 28.3 | 26.1 | 32.1 | 27.3 |
| % Bachelor’s degree or more | 25.3 | 17.1 | 25.9 | 13.9 |
| Age (mean ± SD, range) | 70.3 ± 8.0, 57–91 | 68.2 ± 7.3, 57–88 | 71.0 ± 7.7, 57–90 | 67.2 ± 6.9, 57–85 |
| Years of smoking (mean ± SD, range) | 41.6 ± 11.1, 0–67 | 19.8 ± 12.2, 0–59 | 48.6 ± 9.5, 0–77 | |
| Average cigarettes smoked/day (mean ± SD, range) | 23.5 ± 16.0, 0–80 | 19.7 ± 17.3, 0–100 | 14.9 ± 10.5, 0–60 | |
| Years since smoking cessation (mean ± SD, range) | 7.7 ± 4.8, 0–15 | 32.7 ± 11.2, 16–71 | ||
Demographics of respondents at baseline. Gender, race/ethnic group, education level, and average cigarettes/day were self-reported. Age was calculated from date of birth. Duration of smoking was calculated by subtracting age when respondent began smoking from age when they last smoked regularly. Years since cessation was calculated by subtracting age when respondent last smoked regularly from current age.