Table 1.
Participant demographics and smoking characteristics (N = 124)
| Packs of ≥25 (Analysed, n = 39) |
Packs of 20 (Analysed, n = 40) |
Excluded (n = 45) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender, n (%) | |||
| Male | 15 (39) | 19 (48) | 21 (47) |
| Female | 24 (62) | 21 (52) | 24 (53) |
| Age, mean (SD) | 55 (13) | 55 (13) | 51 (14) |
| Education levela, mean (SD) | 8 (3) | 8 (3) | 8 (3.2) |
| SEIFAb, mean (SD) | 3.1 (1.3) | 3.1 (1.3) | 3 (1.2) |
| Number of cigarettes smoked per day, n (%) | |||
| Less than 10 | 4 (10) | 4 (10) | 2 (4) |
| 11–20 | 5 (13) | 3 (8) | 6 (13) |
| 21–30 | 26 (67) | 20 (50) | 27 (60) |
| More than 30 per day | 4 (10) | 13 (33) | 10 (22) |
| Usual pack size, n (%) | |||
| 25 | 9 (23) | 9 (23) | 0 (0) |
| 26 | 2 (5) | 4 (10) | 9 (20) |
| 30 | 8 (21) | 10 (25) | 3 (7) |
| 40 | 18 (46) | 14 (35) | 12 (26) |
| 50 | 2 (5) | 2 (5) | 20 (43) |
| 60c | 0 (0) | 1 (3) | 2 (4) |
| HSId, mean (SD) | 2.9 (1.1) | 3.1 (1.5) | 3.1 (1.2) |
| MTSSe, mean (SD) | 2.9 (1.1) | 3.1 (1.2) | 2.9 (1.3) |
| AUTOSf, mean (SD) | 16.6 (7.7) | 15.3 (8.0) | 15.5 (7.6) |
aEducation Level:1. Some Primary School; 2. Finished Primary School; 3. Some Secondary School; 4. Some Technical Or Commercial/ TAFE; 5. Passed School Certificate / Passed 4th Form / Passed Intermediate / Year 10 Junior or Achievement certificate; 6. Passed 5th Form / Year 11 / Passed Leaving or Sub-senior certificate; 7. Finished Technical School / Commercial College / TAFE (including trade certificate) / other certificate or apprenticeship; 8. Finished or now studying for Matriculation, Higher School Certificate (H.S.C.), V.C.E., Year 12, or Senior Certificate; 9. Some University or some college of Advanced Education training; 10. Diploma from College of Advanced Education or TAFE (Not Degree), Tertiary or Management Training (including Diploma other than University Degree); 11. Now at University or College of Advanced Education; 12. Degree from University or College of Advanced Education; 13. Higher Degree or Higher Diploma (e.g. Ph.D, Masters)
bSEIFA (Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas) (lowest 20% of areas given quintile number of 1)
cNote: Some participants recorded usual pack size as 60; however, this was clarified to be bundles of 2 × 30 packs
dHSI = Heaviness of Smoking Index (range 0–6)
eMTSS = Motivation to Stop Scale (range 1–7)
fAUTOS = Autonomy Over Smoking Scale (range 0–36)