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Table 2 Key assessments of the Smoking Toolkit Study

From: 'The smoking toolkit study': a national study of smoking and smoking cessation in England

Smoking status

Daily; non-daily; quit within the last year; quit more than a year ago; never smoked for a year or more; use of non-cigarette tobacco

Amount smoked and nicotine intake

Cigarettes or other tobacco products used per day, week, or month; salivary cotinine (follow-up only)

Nicotine dependence

Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence, strength of urge to smoke

Route to quit

Motivation to quit; triggers of quit attempts; barriers to quitting; attempts to quit; methods of quitting (including pharmacological and behavioural aids, planning in advance, pre-quit cutting down); success at quitting

Motivation to smoke

Attitudes, beliefs, and motives associated with smoking

Harm reduction

Prevalence of attempts to cut down but not quit; use of nicotine replacement therapy when cutting down and/or prohibited from smoking

Demographics

Gender; age, socio-economic status; geographic region