Table 2. Patient Prompting About e-Cigarettes and Physician e-Cigarette Recommendation (2018-2019).
| Variable | Asked about e-cigarette by patients | Recommended e-cigarettes to patients | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ever | In past 30 d | Ever | In past 30 d | |||||
| % (95% CI) | P value | % (95% CI) | P value | % (95% CI) | P value | % (95% CI) | P value | |
| Overall | 69.8 (67.8-71.8) | 35.9 (33.8-38.0) | 21.7 (19.9-23.5) | 9.8 (8.5-11.0) | ||||
| Sex | ||||||||
| Male | 73.0 (70.5-75.6) | .001 | 40.3 (37.5-43.1) | <.001 | 25.2 (22.8-27.8) | <.001 | 12.1 (10.2-13.9) | <.001 |
| Female | 65.9 (62.7-69.1) | 30.5 (27.3-33.6) | 17.2 (14.6-19.8) | 6.6 (4.9-8.3) | ||||
| Race and ethnicitya | ||||||||
| Hispanic | 73.9 (64.5-83.2) | <.001 | 47.7 (37.1-58.4) | <.001 | 15.9 (8.1-23.7) | .16 | 6.8 (1.4-12.2) | .49 |
| Asian or Other Pacific Islander | 60.9 (54.9-67.0) | 23.6 (18.4-28.9) | 17.9 (13.2-22.7) | 7.8 (4.5-11.2) | ||||
| Black | 49.5 (39.2-59.7) | 24.0 (15.3-32.7) | 16.7 (9.1-24.3) | 6.3 (1.3-11.2) | ||||
| South Asian | 72.5 (64.9-80.0) | 39.9 (31.6-48.1) | 21.2 (14.2-28.1) | 11.0 (5.7-16.2) | ||||
| White | 73.1 (70.7-75.5) | 38.6 (36.0-41.3) | 23.6 (21.3-25.9) | 10.5 (8.8-12.1) | ||||
| Other | 63.6 (54.0-73.3) | 32.3 (22.9-41.7) | 21.2 (13.0-29.4) | 11.1 (4.8-17.4) | ||||
| Specialty | ||||||||
| OB/GYN | 50.1 (45.9-54.3) | <.001 | 20.9 (17.5-24.3) | <.001 | 15.1 (12.1-18.1) | <.001 | 7.1 (4.9-9.2) | .001 |
| Cardiology | 72.1 (64.8-79.4) | 30.3 (22.8-37.9) | 24.8 (17.7-31.9) | 12.9 (7.4-18.4) | ||||
| Family medicine | 84.6 (81.6-87.6) | 47.6 (43.4-51.7) | 24.9 (21.3-28.4) | 10.6 (8.1-13.2) | ||||
| Internal medicine | 72.5 (68.3-76.6) | 36.8 (32.3-41.2) | 22.7 (18.8-26.5) | 9.5 (6.8-12.3) | ||||
| Oncology | 52.9 (44.5-61.2) | 22.3 (15.3-29.3) | 14.4 (8.5-20.3) | 5.0 (1.3-8.7) | ||||
| Pulmonary | 90.3 (85.9-94.7) | 59.4 (52.1-66.8) | 33.1 (26.0-40.2) | 17.2 (11.6-22.9) | ||||
| PHS awareness | ||||||||
| Unaware | 64.6 (60.9-68.3) | <.001 | 29.8 (26.3-33.4) | <.001 | 18.3 (15.3-21.3) | .01 | 7.7 (5.6-9.8) | .02 |
| Aware, not read | 67.8 (64.6-71.0) | 32.8 (29.6-36.0) | 22.5 (19.6-25.3) | 9.5 (7.5-11.5) | ||||
| Read, not used | 71.2 (63.8-78.7) | 42.5 (34.4-50.6) | 20.1 (13.5-26.8) | 10.4 (5.4-15.5) | ||||
| Uses | 83.4 (79.7-87.1) | 52.6 (47.6-57.5) | 27.0 (22.6-31.4) | 13.6 (10.2-17.0) | ||||
| Risk continuum | ||||||||
| All forms of tobacco equally harmful | 67.9 (65.2-70.5) | .01 | 35.1 (32.4-37.8) | .33 | 13.3 (11.4-15.2) | <.001 | 6.0 (4.7-7.3) | <.001 |
| Cigarettes are the most dangerous | 73.1 (70.0-76.1) | 37.2 (33.9-40.6) | 34.1 (30.8-37.4) | 15.1 (12.6-17.6) | ||||
| Smoked at least 100 cigarettes | ||||||||
| Yes | 70.4 (64.7-76.0) | .83 | 36.5 (30.5-42.5) | .89 | 28.8 (23.1-34.5) | .01 | 16.7 (12.1-21.4) | <.001 |
| No | 69.7 (67.5-71.8) | 36.1 (33.8-38.3) | 20.8 (18.9-22.7) | 8.6 (7.3-9.9) | ||||
| Ever used e-cigarettes | ||||||||
| Yes | 73.2 (62.7-83.8) | .52 | 43.7 (31.8-55.5) | .18 | 40.0 (28.2-51.8) | <.001 | 18.6 (9.2-27.9) | .01 |
| No | 69.6 (67.6-71.7) | 35.8 (33.7-38.0) | 21.1 (19.3-22.9) | 9.3 (8.0-10.6) | ||||
| Year of data collection | ||||||||
| Wave 1/2018 | 69.9 (67.1-72.7) | .93 | 35.2 (32.3-38.1) | .50 | 22.2 (19.7-24.7) | .59 | 10.0 (8.2-11.8) | .74 |
| Wave 2/2019 | 69.7 (66.9-72.6) | 36.6 (33.6-39.6) | 21.2 (18.7-23.8) | 9.5 (7.7-11.4) | ||||
Abbreviations: OB/GYN, obstetrics and gynecology; PHS, Public Health Service.
a
Race and ethnicity were determined by participant self-report. “Other” was a choice on the survey that participants self-selected, and no further breakdown is available.