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Table 1 Demographic, smoking, and e-cigarette use characteristics of participants who completed the 3-month follow-up assessment (n = 9272; 60.0% of ITT sample), by smoking status at the 3-month follow-up assessment

From: Factors associated with past 30-day abstinence from cigarette smoking in a non-probabilistic sample of 15,456 adult established current smokers in the United States who used JUUL vapor products for three months

Variable

Smoking status at 3-month follow-up assessment

Smoked in 30 days

(n = 4905) N %

No smoking in past 30 days (n = 4367) N %

Total

(n = 9272) N %

Demographic variables

 Sex

  Male

2716 (55.4)

2607 (59.7)

5323 (57.4)

  Female

2120 (43.2)

1706 (39.1)

3826 (41.3)

  Transgender

27 (0.6)

24 (0.5)

51 (0.6)

  Missing

42 (0.9)

30 (0.7)

72 (0.8)

 Age

  21–24

1339 (27.3)

1731 (39.6)

3070 (33.1)

  25–34

1689 (34.4)

1413 (32.4)

3102 (33.5)

  35–44

1003 (20.4)

621 (14.2)

1624 (17.5)

  45–54

539 (11.0)

339 (7.8)

878 (9.5)

  55–64

267 (5.4)

236 (5.4)

503 (5.4)

  ≥ 65

68 (1.4)

27 (0.6)

95 (1.0)

 Race/Ethnicity

  Non-Hispanic, White

3439 (70.1)

2895 (66.3)

6334 (68.3)

  Non-Hispanic, Black

149 (3.0)

143 (3.3)

292 (3.1)

  Non-Hispanic, American Indian/Alaskan

61 (1.2)

54 (1.2)

115 (1.2)

  Non-Hispanic, Asian, Hawaiian, or PIa

514 (10.5)

438 (10.0)

952 (10.3)

  Non-Hispanic, two or more races

1 (0.0)

1 (0.0)

2 (0.0)

  Hispanicb

390 (8.0)

427 (9.8)

817 (8.8)

  Missing

351 (7.2)

409 (9.4)

760 (8.2)

 Education

  Not HS graduate

139 (2.8)

115 (2.6)

254 (2.7)

  GED

186 (3.8)

178 (4.1)

364 (3.9)

  HS graduate

689 (14.0)

890 (20.4)

1579 (17.0)

  Some college or associate’s degree

1901 (38.8)

1572 (36.0)

3473 (37.5)

  Bachelor’s degree or higher

1778 (36.2)

1362 (31.2)

3140 (33.9)

  Missing

212 (4.3)

250 (5.7)

462 (5.0)

 Household income

  < $25,000

962 (19.6)

935 (21.4)

1897 (20.5)

  $25,000 to $74,999

1979 (40.3)

1809 (41.4)

3788 (40.9)

  ≥ $75,000

1381 (28.2)

1126 (25.8)

2507 (27.0)

  Missing

583 (11.9)

497 (11.4)

1080 (11.6)

 U.S. census region

  Northeast

1109 (22.6)

908 (20.8)

2017 (21.8)

  South

1785 (36.4)

1640 (37.6)

3425 (36.9)

  Midwest

1159 (23.6)

1010 (23.1)

2169 (23.4)

  West

813 (16.6)

782 (17.9)

1595 (17.2

  Missing

39 (0.8)

27 (0.6)

66 (0.7)

Smoking and e-cigarette variables

 Age of first smoking

  ≤ 11 years

191 (3.9)

126 (2.9)

317 (3.4)

  12 to 14 years

1177 (24.0)

751 (17.2)

1928 (20.8)

  15 to 17 years

1938 (39.5)

1552 (35.5)

3490 (37.6)

  18 to 24 years

1497 (30.5)

1831 (41.9)

3328 (35.9)

  ≥ 25 years

87 (1.8)

94 (2.2)

181 (2.0)

  Missing

15 (0.3)

13 (0.3)

28 (0.3)

 Lifetime years of smoking

  ≤ 1 year

315 (6.4)

513 (11.7)

828 (8.9)

  1–5 years

1138 (23.2)

1485 (34.0)

2623 (28.3)

  6–10 years

1071 (21.8)

870 (19.9)

1941 (20.9)

  11–20 years

1265 (25.8)

784 (18.0)

2049 (22.1)

  ≥ 20 years

1029 (21.0)

601 (13.8)

1630 (17.6)

  Missing

87 (1.8)

114 (2.6)

201 (2.2)

 Number of smoking days in 30 days prior to baseline

  1–9 days

468 (9.5)

819 (18.8)

1287 (13.9)

  10–19 days

456 (9.3)

686 (15.7)

1142 (12.3)

  20–29 days

1031 (21.0)

1085 (24.8)

2116 (22.8)

  30 days

2950 (60.1)

1777 (40.7)

4727 (51.0)

 Cigarettes smoked per day at baseline

  1–9 cigarettes per day

2224 (45.3)

2626 (60.1)

4850 (52.3)

  10–19 cigarettes per day

1609 (32.8)

1134 (26.0)

2743 (29.6)

  ≥ 20 cigarettes per day

1072 (21.9)

607 (13.9)

1679 (18.1)

 Days of JUUL use in past 30 days at 3 months

  0 days

35 (0.7)

13 (0.3)

48 (0.5)

  1–9 days

394 (8.0)

275 (6.3)

669 (7.2)

  10–19 days

725 (14.8)

356 (8.2)

1081 (11.7)

  20–29 days

1040 (21.2)

704 (16.1)

1744 (18.8)

  30 days

2476 (50.5)

2710 (62.1)

5186 (55.9)

  Missing

235 (4.8)

309 (7.1)

544 (5.9)

 Current use of an e-cigarette other than JUUL

  Yes

568 (11.6)

407 (9.3)

975 (10.5)

  No

4335 (88.4)

3958 (90.6)

8293 (89.4)

  Missing

2 (0.0)

2 (0.0)

4 (0.0)

 Place of first JUUL SK purchase

  Retail store

1914 (39.0)

2346 (53.7)

4260 (45.9)

  JUUL website

2991 (61.0)

2021 (46.3)

5012 (54.1)

 Bought JUUL SK ‘to help me quit smoking’

  Yes

4069 (83.0)

3670 (84.0)

7739 (83.5)

  No

835 (17.0)

696 (15.9)

1531 (16.5)

  Missing

1 (0.0)

1 (0.0)

2 (0.0)

 Primary JUULpod flavor used in past 30 days (at 3 months)

  Virginia Tobacco

529 (10.8)

371 (8.5)

900 (9.7)

  Mint

863 (17.6)

1008 (23.1)

1871 (20.2)

  Mango

1107 (22.6)

1168 (26.7)

2275 (24.5)

  Crème

258 (5.3)

191 (4.4)

449 (4.8)

  Fruit

202 (4.1)

127 (2.9)

329 (3.5)

  Cucumber

242 (4.9)

193 (4.4)

435 (4.7)

  Classic Tobacco

138 (2.8)

40 (0.9)

178 (1.9)

  Menthol

187 (3.8)

119 (2.7)

306 (3.3)

  Equal use of 2+ flavors, no primary

1087 (22.2)

838 (19.2)

1925 (20.8)

  Missing

292 (6.0)

312 (7.1)

604 (6.5)

 JUULpod flavors used in past 30 days (at 3 months)

  Only used JUUL tobacco flavorsc

472 (9.6)

277 (6.3)

749 (8.1)

  Only used JUUL characterizing flavorsd

3209 (65.4)

3194 (73.1)

6403 (69.1)

  Used both tobacco and characterizing flavors

941 (19.2)

591 (13.5)

1532 (16.5)

  Missing

283 (5.8)

305 (7.0)

588 (6.3)

  1. SK JUUL starter kit (JUUL vaporizer plus four disposable pods); 3 M 3 months follow-up assessment, HS high school, GED general educational development, PI Pacific Islander
  2. aIncludes Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Guamanian, Chamorro, and Samoan
  3. bIncludes Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican and “other Hispanic” ethnicity
  4. cJUUL tobacco flavors include “Virginia Tobacco” and “Classic Tobacco”
  5. dJUUL characterizing flavors include “Mint,” “Mango,” “Crème,” “Fruit,” “Cucumber,” and “Menthol”