Smoking and environmental characteristics of smokers with a mental illness, and associations with quitting behaviour and motivation; a cross sectional study

Table 2 Smoking characteristics

	Total (N = 754)
Smoking status (%)^{a, b, c, d, e}
Daily	93.0
Weekly	3.6
Irregular	3.4
Cigarettes Per Day (%)^{a, b, c, e}
1–10	26.1
11–20	36.2
21–30	23.2
> 30	14.5
Level of nicotine dependence (%)^{a,c, e}
Low-moderate	48.8
High	51.2
Age initiated smoking (%)^{d, e}
< 12	21.8
12 - < 14	21.0
14 - < 16	25.2
16 - < 18	16.2
≥ 18	15.9
Number of years smoked (%)^{a, b, c, d, e}
≤ 10	18.3
11–20	26.9
> 20	54.8

Entered into regression analyses: ^aQuit attempt in the past 6 months; ^bNumber of quit attempts in the past 6 months; ^cLength of longest quit attempt in past 6 months; ^dReadiness to quit; ^eEase of seeing oneself as a non-smoker

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