Table 4.
Propensity score matched analysis for biochemically-verified tobacco abstinence at 6-month follow-up by e-cigarette use, stratified by study arm.
| Biochemically confirmed tobacco abstinence (past 7 days) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Care (Control) | Sustained Care (Intervention) | Interaction* | |||||||||
| E cigarette use | Nᶧ | Yes % | No % | Risk Difference | 95% CI | Nᶧ | Yes % | No % | Risk Difference | 95% CI | P |
| Prior to hospital admission | |||||||||||
| Use in the past 30 days | 117 | 17.9 | 14.5 | 3.4 | −6.0, 12.9 | 106 | 21.7 | 22.6 | −0.9 | −12.1, 10.2 | 0.57 |
| 3 month follow-up | |||||||||||
| Any use since discharge | 113 | 12.0 | 24.1 | −12.0 | −21.2, 2.9 | 104 | 7.7 | 29.8 | −22.1 | −32.3, −11.9 | 0.14 |
| Use in the past 30 days | 93 | 14.0 | 18.3 | −4.3 | −14.9, 6.3 | 69 | 8.7 | 18.8 | −10.1 | −21.5, 1.2 | 0.39 |
| Use in the past 7 days | 66 | 16.7 | 19.7 | −3.0 | −16.2, 10.1 | 51 | 9.8 | 15.7 | −5.9 | −18.8, 7.0 | 0.66 |
| At both 1 and 3 months | |||||||||||
| Use in the past 30 days | 53 | 15.1 | 26.4 | −11.3 | −26.6, 4.0 | 38 | 13.2 | 21.1 | −7.9 | −24.7, 8.9 | 0.86 |
| Use in the past 7 days | 33 | 17.1 | 17.1 | 0.0 | −17.7, 17.7 | 22 | 18.2 | 27.3 | −9.1 | −33.7, 15.5 | 0.59 |
Interaction between study arm and e-cigarette use measure
Number of matched pairs