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. 2020 Sep 23;17(17):2673–2684. doi: 10.7150/ijms.49401

Table 6.

Clinical relevance of the results

Positive cotinine urine test
3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months 12 months
95% CI
Smoking rates
Intervention Group 71.2% 69.5% 60.3% 53.4%
Control Group 79.4% 76.2% 69.8% 74.2%
p value 0.294 0.405 0.273 0.018
Clinical relevance
RR 0.90 0.91 0.85 0.72 0.54-0.96
RRR 0.10 0.09 0.15 0.28 0.04-0.46
ARR 0.08 0.07 0.11 0.20 0.04-0.37
NNT 12.23 14.93 9.51 4.88 2.68-27.28

RR: relative risk

RRR: relative risk reduction

ARR: absolute risk reduction

NNT: number needed to treat