Table 2 Participants’ intention to quit smoking before and after viewing pictorial HWLs
Are you planning to quit smoking? | Total | Self-harm from using cigarettes | Harming family/children with SHS | Reinforcing compliance with existing smoke-free policies | Anti-cigarette gift giving | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(N = 1625) | (n = 395) | (n = 408) | (n = 395) | (n = 427) | ||||||
Pre | Post | Pre | Post | Pre | Post | Pre | Post | Pre | Post | |
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
I do NOT plan to quit smoking | 782 (48.1) | 530 (32.6) | 193 (48.9) | 118 (29.9) | 183 (44.9) | 123 (30.1) | 198 (50.1) | 143 (36.2) | 208 (48.7) | 146 (34.2) |
Beyond 6 months | 385 (23.7) | 572 (35.2) | 85 (21.5) | 138 (34.9) | 96 (23.5) | 154 (37.7) | 104 (26.3) | 138 (34.9) | 100 (23.4) | 142 (33.3) |
Within 6 months | 317 (19.5) | 381 (23.4) | 86 (21.8) | 99 (25.1) | 85 (20.8) | 96 (23.5) | 65 (16.5) | 85 (21.5) | 81 (19.0) | 101 (23.7) |
Within the next month | 137 (8.4) | 132 (8.1) | 30 (7.6) | 36 (9.1) | 42 (10.3) | 33 (8.1) | 27 (6.8) | 27 (6.8) | 38 (8.9) | 36 (8.4) |
Missing | 4 (0.2) | 10 (0.6) | 1 (0.3) | 4 (1.0) | 2 (0.5) | 2 (0.5) | 1 (0.3) | 2 (0.5) | 0 (0) | 2 (0.5) |
Wilcoxon signed-rank test | z=-9.22 p > 0.001 | z=-5.83 p > 0.001 | z=-3.32 p > 0.01 | z=-4.57 p > 0.001 | z=-4.64 p > 0.001 | |||||