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Table 2 Baseline smoking and related risk behaviours of participants assigned to usual care and intervention groups

From: The Be Our Ally Beat Smoking (BOABS) study, a randomised controlled trial of an intensive smoking cessation intervention in a remote aboriginal Australian health care setting

Characteristic

Usual care group (n = 108)

Intervention group (n = 55)

Smoking*

  

  Average number of cigarettes smoked per day

15 (10–25)

15 (11–25)

  Years since started smoking

19.0 (10.9–26.7)

24.2 (15.0–31.6)

  Age first started smoking

16 (14–18)

17 (15–19)

Nicotine dependency score ≤5 [26]

49/102 (48%)

24/53 (45%)

Self-reported desire to quit

63/105 (60%)

28/53 (53%)

Other drug use

  

  Current alcohol drinker

77/105 (73%)

41/53 (77%)

  Smoked marijuana within the last month

37/105 (35%)

14/52 (27%)

  Ever used other illicit drugs

17/104 (16%)

8/53 (15%)

  1. Data are number (%) or median (interquartile range).
  2. *Missing data for average number of cigarettes smoked per day: 4 usual care and 6 intervention; years since started smoking: 4 usual care and 2 intervention; age first started smoking: 4 usual care and 2 intervention.