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. 2021 Dec 28;4(12):e2140880. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.40880

Table 2. Cigarette Discontinuation and Discontinuing Daily Cigarette Smoking at Follow-up Wave, Among Daily Cigarette Smokers Who Had No Plans to Ever Quit for Good and Who Were Not Using e-Cigarettes at Baseline Wave, as a Function of e-Cigarette Use at Follow-up Wavea.

e-Cigarette use at follow-up Cigarette discontinuation at follow-up wave (ie, no cigarette smoking) Discontinuing daily cigarette smoking at follow-up wave (ie, no daily cigarette smoking)
No. of observations (%) [95% CI] aOR (95% CI)b No.of observations (%) [95% CI] aOR (95% CI)b
Overall (n = 2489) 158 (6.2) [5.0-7.5] NA 271 (10.7) [9.1-12.5] NA
No e-cigarette use (n = 2273) 138 (5.8) [4.7-7.2] 1 [Reference] 228 (9.9) [8.2-11.8] 1 [Reference]
Nondaily e-cigarette use (n = 156) 3 (3.1) [0.8-11.1]c 0.53 (0.08-3.35) 16 (10.2) [5.8-17.3] 0.96 (0.44-2.09)
Daily e-cigarette use (n = 60) 17 (28.0) [15.2-45.9] 8.11 (3.14-20.97) 27 (45.5) [27.4-64.9] 9.67 (4.02-23.25)

Abbreviations: aOR, adjusted odd ratios; NA, not applicable.

a

Numbers are unweighted and reflect numbers of observations; percentages, aORs, and 95% CIs are weighted using the PATH wave 5 all-waves weights for longitudinal analyses. Sample includes those who aged into the adult cohort over the course of the study period.

b

Analyses were adjusted for biological sex, race and ethnicity, age group, educational attainment, annual household income, cigarettes smoked per day, and wave pair; all covariates were assessed at baseline wave of each wave pair; generalized estimating equation models were fitted specifying the unstructured covariance and within-person correlation matrices, Wald χ222 of 95.4 (P < .001) for the cigarette discontinuation model; Wald χ222 of 170.6 (P < .001) for the daily cigarette discontinuation model.

c

Estimate should be interpreted with caution because it has low statistical precision. It is based on a denominator sample size of less than 50, or the coefficient of variation of the estimate or its complement is larger than 30%.