Table 2 Comparison of baseline characteristics of smokers in the intervention and control groups
Intervention | Control | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N = 386 (40.9%) | N = 557 (59.1%) | ||||||||
N | % | μ | SD* | N | % | μ | SD* | p** | |
Sociodemographic variables | |||||||||
Age | 364 | 16.9 | 1.0 | 17.0 | 1.0 | 0.16 | |||
Sex | 0.001 | ||||||||
Male | 310 | 80.3 | 490 | 88.0 | |||||
Female | 76 | 19.7 | 67 | 12.0 | |||||
Area of learning | 0.09 | ||||||||
BPW£ | 472 | 62.3 | 681 | 65.6 | |||||
Catering industry | 171 | 22.6 | 236 | 22.7 | |||||
Personal services | 115 | 15.2 | 121 | 11.7 | |||||
Cannabis consumption | 203 | 54.3 | 334 | 62.2 | 0.02 | ||||
Smoking behaviour | |||||||||
Age at first cigarette | 346 | 12.1 | 2.1 | 514 | 12.2 | 2.1 | 0.59 | ||
Age at which smoking became a daily occurrence | 324 | 13.7 | 1.6 | 488 | 13.9 | 1.7 | 0.25 | ||
Current number of cigarettes/day | 365 | 13.0 | 8.5 | 536 | 12.7 | 7.3 | 0.62 | ||
Motivation for quitting smoking (scale: 0 to 10) | 171 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 280 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 0.53 | ||
Chances of succeeding (scale: 0 to 10) | 170 | 4.3 | 3.1 | 278 | 4.8 | 3.2 | 0.16 | ||
HONC score | 351 | 6.4 | 2.7 | 538 | 5.9 | 2.9 | 0.01 | ||
Type of smoking behaviour | 0,38 | ||||||||
Casual | 21 | 12.2 | 27 | 9.6 | |||||
Daily | 151 | 87.8 | 254 | 90.4 | |||||
Heavy smokers (>10 cig/d) | 174 | 48.6 | 255 | 48.5 | 0.97 | ||||
Number of attempts to quit smoking | 0.50 | ||||||||
Never | 106 | 39.7 | 146 | 36.8 | |||||
Once | 77 | 28.8 | 119 | 30.0 | |||||
2 to 3 times | 72 | 27.0 | 101 | 25.4 | |||||
4 to 5 times | 8 | 3.0 | 19 | 4.8 | |||||
More than 5 times | 4 | 1.5 | 12 | 3.0 | |||||
Physician consultations about quitting smoking | 3 | 1.7 | 6 | 2.1 | 0.77 | ||||
Use of a nicotine substitute to quit smoking | 11 | 6.4 | 22 | 7.9 | 0.55 | ||||
Intention to quit smoking within the next six months | 80 | 30.7 | 109 | 29.5 | 0.75 | ||||