Prevalence of hookah smoking and associated factors among male high school students in Iraq

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Descriptive characteristics associated with hookah smoking (last 6 months), duration of hookah sessions, and other variables

Variable & Category	Frequency smoked	n	%
Number of times smoked hookah tobacco in the past 30 days.	1	110	28.1
	2	65	16.6
	3	44	11.3
	4	16	4.1
	5	23	5.9
	6	6	1.5
	7---13	48	12.4
	14---20	32	8.3
	21---27	3	0.9
	28---49	32	8.2
	≥50	12	3.4
Hookah smoked in the last 6 months	Yes	335	85.7
Hookah smoked in the last 6 months	No	56	14.3
Age first smoked hookah	< 10 years	6	1.5
	10	14	3.6
	11	7	1.8
	12	19	4.9
	13	30	7.7
	14	59	15.1
	15	103	26.3
	16	107	27.4
	≥17 years	46	11.8
Hookah smoking sessions/day among regular users	One	52	13.3
	Two	134	34.3
	Three	121	31.0
	Four	81	20.7
	Five & more	3	0.8
Sharing mouth-piece of hookah-smoking device	Never	120	30.7
	Sometimes	135	34.6
	Most of the times	59	15.1
	Always	77	19.7
Student’s confidence that he can quit hookah smoking?	Completely confident	239	61.2
	Confident	83	21.3
	Some Confident	30	7.7
	Not that Confident	22	5.6
	Not Confident at all	17	4.3
Duration of hookah smoking at each session (minutes)	< 15 min	58	15.0
	15–29	20	5.1
	30–44	95	24.3
	45–59	24	6.2
	60–119	139	35.6
	≥120 min	55	14.2

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