Table 3.

Associations between mental health and triggers for quit attempts

	Concern re future health			Current health problem			Too expensive			Something said by friends/family
	%1	adjOR, 95% CI2	p	%1	adjOR, 95% CI 2	p	%1	adjOR, 95% CI2	p	%1	adjOR, 95% CI2	p
Ever diagnosis
No	36.2	Ref		17.5	Ref		18.0	Ref		16.1	Ref
Yes	37.0	1.16, 0.95–1.41	0.15	23.5	1.55, 1.23–1.97	< 0.001	20.4	1.20, 0.94–1.52	0.14	18.4	1.21, 0.94–1.56	0.15
Past-year treatment
No	36.7	Ref		17.7	Ref		18.9	Ref		16.5	Ref
Yes	35.9	1.10, 0.88–1.38	0.40	25.4	1.52, 1.18–1.97	0.001	19.4	1.05, 0.80–1.37	0.74	18.5	1.13, 0.85–1.49	0.41
Past-month distress
None	36.6	Ref		18.2	Ref		18.2	Ref		14.2	Ref
Moderate	37.5	1.15, 0.92–1.43	0.22	20.3	1.25, 0.96–1.63	0.099	21.0	1.15, 0.88–1.49	0.30	21.5	1.49, 1.13–1.96	0.005
Serious	33.6	1.06, 0.77–1.45	0.71	25.8	1.72, 1.21–2.43	0.002	18.4	1.06, 0.73–1.54	0.77	20.2	1.52, 1.03–2.22	0.034

Unweighted n = 1956

Bold figures indicate that the confidence interval does not include 1

¹Weighted % who reported each trigger, those with > 5% overall only

²Logistic regressions unweighted, adjusted for age, gender, occupational grade, urges to smoke, time since most recent quit attempt