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Table 8 Characteristics during life in prison help participants quit smoking

From: Prisoners and cigarettes or ‘imprisoned in cigarettes’? What helps prisoners quit smoking?

Characteristics

p-value

Ex-smokers

Smokers

  

Mean

S.D.

Mean

S.D.

Number of cellmates

<.001

3.9

3.4

7.3

3.5

Number of smokers in cell

<.001

2.8

3.2

6.3

3.2

Length of sentence (months)

.019

49.7

46.5

26.6

40.2