Table 2.

Transition Away or Toward Smoking Cigarettes From 2016 to 2018, by Baseline Flavor^a

		Wave 1 flavor (2016)
Wave 2 (2018) status	N	Tobacco or unflavored (n = 387), 43.7%	Menthol or mint (n = 145), 16.3%	Sweet flavor (n = 354), 40%	Total (n = 886), 100%
Quit smoking (and vaping status at Wave 2)	98	9.6	8.3	13.8	11.1
Stopped vaping (no vaping)	47	3.9	6.2	6.5	5.3
Still vaping (vaping)	51	5.7	2.1	7.3	5.8
Still smokingb	788	90.4	91.7	86.2	88.9
Progress but not quit	182	19.9	21.4	20.9	20.5
Stable	248	31.3	29.0	24.0	28.0
Regressc	358	39.3	41.4	41.2	40.4
Vaping status among continuing smokers	783	N = 348	N = 133	N = 302	N = 783
Stopped vaping	268	33.3	34.6	35.1	34.2
Vaping	515	66.7	65.4	64.9	65.8

^aThe analyses reported in this table were on unweighted data.

^bIn some longitudinal analyses all three continuing smoker categories were combined to compare with those quit smoking.

^cThis refers to smoking cigarettes at a higher frequency at Wave 2 compared with Wave 1; whereas “progress, but not quit” refers to reduced smoking.