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Published in final edited form as: Addict Behav. 2022 Nov 14;138:107549. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107549

Table 1.

Participant Characteristics at Wave 4 by Past-Year E-cigarette Use (to Quit Smoking Cigarettes) at Wave 5 (18–34 years) Among Young Adult Established, Current Smokers Who Did Not Use E-cigarettes at Wave 4 (18–34 years): Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study Youth Surveys Waves 4 (2016–2018) and 5 (2018–2019)1

Sample2 Past-year E-cigarette Use at Wave 5 Sample3 Past-year E-cigarette Use to Quit Smoking at Wave 5
Yes No Yes No
N=2,664 33.4% 66.6% N=948 12.0% 88.0%
% (95% CI) % (95% CI) % (95% CI) P-value % (95% CI) % (95% CI) % (95% CI) P-value
E-cigarette Price Promotion Receipt 0.0001 0.0001
 Yes 4.1 (3.3, 5.1) 52.8 (43.2, 62.2) 47.2 (37.8, 56.8) 4.9 (3.3, 7.2) 30.0 (18.0, 45.5) 70.0 (54.5, 82.0)
 No 95.9 (94.9, 96.8) 32.6 (30.6, 34.7) 67.4 (65.3, 69.4) 95.1 (92.8, 97.7) 11.1 (9.2, 13.3) 88.9 (86.7, 90.8)
Age <0.0001 0.2167
 18–24 18.2 (16.8, 19.7) 49.3 (45.6, 54.0) 50.7 (46.0, 55.4) 21.2 (18.5, 24.1) 15.5 (10.8, 21.8) 84.5 (78.2, 89.2)
 25–34 81.8 (80.3, 83.2) 32.1 (30.0, 34.4) 67.9 (65.6, 70.1) 78.8 (75.9, 81.5) 11.9 (9.5, 14.7) 88.1 (85.3, 90.5)
Biological Sex 0.2408 0.4173
 Female 56.7 (54.7, 58.7) 32.2 (29.2, 35.3) 67.8 (64.7, 70.8) 55.0 (51.4, 58.4) 11.2 (8.6, 14.4) 88.8 (85.6, 91.4)
 Male 43.3 (41.4, 45.4) 35.1 (31.9, 38.4) 64.9 (61.6, 68.1) 45.0 (41.5, 48.6) 13.0 (10.0, 16.9) 87.0 (83.2, 90.0)
Race/ethnicity 0.0075 0.0391
 Non-Hispanic White 66.0 (63.6, 68.4) 35.6 (31.9, 38.3) 64.4 (61.7, 67.1) 64.5 (61.0, 67.8) 14.0 (11.1, 17.4) 86.0 (82.7, 88.9)
 Non-Hispanic Black 12.6 (10.8, 14.5) 25.7 (21.3, 30.6) 74.3 (69.4, 78.7) 12.5 (10.6, 14.8) 5.8 (2.6, 12.5) 94.2 (87.5, 97.4)
 Hispanic 15.2 (13.7, 16.7) 29.7 (24.5, 35.3) 70.3 (64.6, 75.5) 17.0 (14.2, 20.3) 8.1 (4.7, 13.6) 91.9 (86.4, 95.3)
 Non-Hispanic Other 6.2 (5.2, 7.6) 37.6 (29.5, 46.5) 62.4 (53.5, 70.5) 6.0 (4.4, 8.2) 16.7 (8.5, 29.9) 83.3 (70.1, 91.5)
Highest Level of Education <0.0001 0.0023
 ≤High School/GED 56.0 (53.5, 58.4) 28.5 (25.9, 31.2) 71.5 (68.8, 74.1) 51.6 (47.5, 55.6) 8.0 (5.6, 11.4) 92.0 (88.5, 94.4)
 >High School 44.0 (41.6, 46.5) 39.8 (36.7, 43.0) 60.2 (57.1, 63.3) 48.4 (44.4, 52.5) 16.3 (12.8, 20.5) 83.7 (79.5, 87.2)
Annual Household Income 0.5098 0.2657
 <$50,000 71.1 (68.4, 73.6) 32.9 (30.3, 35.5) 67.1 (64.5, 70.0) 69.3 (65.0, 73.4) 11.3 (8.9, 14.3) 88.7 (85.7, 91.1)
 ≥$50,000 28.9 (26.4, 31.6) 34.6 (30.7, 38.9) 65.4 (61.3, 69.3) 30.7 (26.6, 35.0) 14.0 (10.4, 18.7) 86.0 (81.3, 89.5)
Cigarette Smoking Frequency 0.6391 0.0004
 Daily Smoking 72.1 (69.7, 74.5) 33.0 (30.5, 35.6) 67.0 (64.4, 69.5) 68.6 (64.7, 72.4) 14.9 (12.2, 18.0) 85.1 (82.0, 87.8)
 Non-Daily Smoking 27.9 (25.6, 30.3) 34.5 (29.8, 39.5) 65.5 (60.5, 70.2) 31.4 (27.6, 35.4) 5.8 (3.5, 9.4) 94.2 (90.6, 96.5)
Time to Smoke the First Cigarette After Waking 0.0211 0.0023
 >60 minutes 31.1 (28.9, 33.4) 34.7 (30.6, 39.1) 65.3 (60.9, 69.4) 35.1 (31.6, 38.8) 8.9 (5.9, 13.1) 91.1 (86.9, 94.1)
 31–60 minutes 17.9 (16.3, 19.6) 33.7 (29.2, 38.5) 66.3 (61.5, 70.8) 20.7 (17.8, 24.0) 14.9 (10.7, 20.4) 85.1 (79.6, 89.3)
 6–30 minutes 31.9 (29.8, 34.1) 33.0 (29.5, 36.7) 67.0 (63.3, 70.5) 28.9 (25.7, 32.5) 12.4 (8.9, 17.0) 87.6 (83.1, 91.1)
 ≤5 minutes 19.1 (17.2, 21.1) 32.2 (28.0, 36.6) 67.8 (63.4, 71.9) 15.3 (12.6, 18.3) 14.5 (8.6, 23.3) 85.5 (76.7, 91.4)
Past-Year Quitting Smoking Cigarettes 0.5750 0.1852
 Yes 35.1 (33.1, 37.2) 34.4 (30.8, 38.2) 65.6 (61.8, 69.2) 53.6 (50.1, 57.2) 10.6 (8.0, 13.9) 89.4 (86.1, 92.0)
 No 64.9 (62.8, 66.9) 33.1 (30.6, 35.7) 66.9 (64.3, 69.4) 46.4 (42.8, 49.9) 13.7 (10.6, 17.6) 86.3 (82.4, 89.4)
Past-Month Tobacco Advertising Exposure <0.0001 0.0001
 Yes 56.6 (54.3, 58.9) 37.9 (35.4, 40.5) 62.1 (59.3, 64.7) 56.7 (52.7, 50.7) 15.6 (12.6, 19.1) 84.4 (80.9, 87.4)
 No 43.4 (41.1, 45.7) 27.6 (24.9, 30.5) 72.4 (69.5, 75.1) 43.3 (39.4, 47.3) 7.3 (5.3, 10.0) 92.7 (90.0, 94.8)
Past-Year Cigarette Price Promotion Receipt 0.0137 0.0350
 Yes 42.7 (40.2, 45.3) 36.4 (33.2, 39.8) 63.6 (60.0, 66.8) 46.2 (41.5, 51.1) 14.8 (11.4, 18.9) 85.2 (81.1, 88.6)
 No 57.3 (54.7, 59.8) 31.2 (28.8, 33.7) 68.8 (66.3, 71.2) 53.8 (49.0, 58.5) 9.6 (72.3, 12.7) 90.4 (87.3, 92.7)
1.

Percentages are weighted estimates

2.

Bolded text represents p<0.05

3.

P-value for testing group difference