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. 2021 Jun 1;23(11):1952–1957. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntab116

Table 2.

Quit Methods Among Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Adults in the Tobacco User Adult Cohort Who Made At Least One 24-Hour Quit Attempt (N = 659)

Full sample Women Men
Sexual minority (n = 47) Heterosexual (n = 612) Sexual minority (n = 26) Heterosexual (n = 254) Sexual minority (n = 21) Heterosexual (n = 358)
n (%) p n (%) p n (%) p
NRT 15 (31.9) 160 (26.1) .39 8 (30.8) 68 (26.8) .65 7 (33.3) 92 (25.7) .45
Tobacco product substitution 13 (27.7) 130 (21.2) .36 7 (26.9) 55 (21.7) .62 6 (28.6) 75 (21.0) .41
Books/pamphlets 3 (6.4) 17 (2.8) .17 1 (3.9) 8 (3.2) .59 2 (9.5) 9 (2.5) .12
Internet/web-based program 3 (6.4) 8 (1.3) .037 0 (0.0) 4 (1.6) 1.00 3 (14.3) 4 (1.1) .005
Quit line 2 (4.3) 8 (1.3) .16 0 (0.0) 2 (0.8) 1.00 2 (9.5) 6 (1.7) .07
Counseling 1 (2.1) 17 (2.8) 1.00 1 (3.9) 8 (3.2) .59 0 (0.0) 9 (2.5) 1.00
Quit tobacco clinic 1 (2.1) 3 (0.5) .26 1 (3.9) 3 (1.2) .32 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) n/a
Videos 1 (2.1) 4 (0.7) .31 1 (3.9) 2 (0.8) .25 0 (0.0) 2 (0.6) 1.00

NRT = nicotine replacement therapy. All tests of statistical significance were calculated from Fisher’s exact tests.

Bolded p-values indicate a statistically significant difference between sexual minority and heterosexual participants (p < .05).