Distribution of nicotine dependence by gender, age, education and smoking cessation support in the years prior to the study according to interest in quitting
| Characteristics | Whole sample | No interest in quitting | Interest in quitting | ||||||
| HSI | HSI | ||||||||
| n (%) | Low n (%) | Moderate n (%) | High n (%) | P value* | Low n (%) | Moderate n (%) | High n (%) | P value* | |
| Gender | |||||||||
| Female | 270 (41) | 19 (12) | 92 (61) | 41 (27) | <0.001 | 15 (13) | 84 (71) | 19 (16) | 0.026 |
| Male | 381 (59) | 8 (3) | 144 (58) | 98 (39) | 10 (8) | 82 (62) | 39 (30) | ||
| Age group | |||||||||
| 18–34 | 179 (27) | 9 (9) | 63 (60) | 33 (31) | 0.524 | 9 (12) | 50 (68) | 15 (20) | 0.777 |
| 35–64 | 414 (64) | 17 (7) | 151 (59) | 88 (34) | 15 (10) | 103 (65) | 40 (25) | ||
| 65+ | 58 (9) | 1 (2) | 22 (54) | 18 (44) | 1 (6) | 13 (76) | 3 (18) | ||
| Education level | |||||||||
| Primary or less | 249 (38) | 4 (2) | 91 (55) | 72 (43) | <0.001 | 7 (8) | 45 (55) | 30 (37) | 0.003 |
| Vocational | 216 (33) | 5 (4) | 83 (63) | 44 (33) | 5 (6) | 62 (74%) | 17 (20) | ||
| High school | 146 (22) | 12 (15) | 51 (64) | 17 (21) | 9 (13) | 46 (70) | 11 (17) | ||
| Tertiary | 40 (6) | 6 (26) | 11 (48) | 6 (26) | 4 (24) | 13 (76) | 0 (0) | ||
| Smoking cessation support | |||||||||
| Brief intervention | 163 (25) | 2 (2) | 56 (61) | 34 (37) | 0.138 | 4 (6) | 54 (76) | 13 (18) | 0.117 |
| Non-pharmacological support | 45 (7) | 2 (6) | 21 (68) | 8 (26) | 0.544 | 4 (29) | 10 (71) | 0 (0) | 0.014 |
| Pharmacotherapy | 11 (2) | 0 (0) | 3 (100) | 0 (0) | 0.345 | 1 (12) | 5 (63) | 2 (25) | 0.960 |
| Programmatic support† | 54 (8) | 2 (6) | 23 (70) | 8 (24) | 0.392 | 5 (24) | 14 (67) | 2 (9) | 0.045 |
| Any cessation support | 208 (32) | 4 (3%) | 77 (63) | 42 (34) | 0.162 | 8 (9) | 63 (74) | 14 (17) | 0.157 |
| Total | 651 | 27 (7%) | 236 (59) | 139 (34) | 25 (10) | 166 (67) | 58 (23) | 0.002 | |
*χ2 test.
†Non-pharmacological programmatic support and pharmacological programmatic support have been summarised as programmatic support.
HSI, Heaviness of Smoking Index.