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Table 2 Sample description overall and by ever diagnosis, past-year treatment and past-month distress, weighted

From: Mental health and smoking cessation—a population survey in England

Characteristic

 

Total

Ever diagnosis

Past-year treatment

Past-month distress

No

Yes

No

Yes

None

Moderate

Serious

Ever diagnosis, %

 

40.2

0

100

21.4

59.2

90.6

Past-year treatment, %

 

25.9

64.5

9.9

39.6

75.3

Past-month distress, %

Moderate

28.3

19.3

41.6

23.1

43.3

Serious

11.7

1.8

26.4

3.9

33.8

Age, %

16–24

19.0

18.2

20.2

18.6

20.1

14.4

25.3

27.5

25–34

26.8

25.3

29.0

26.0

29.0

25.5

29.0

27.9

35–44

20.2

19.9

20.7

20.1

20.7

19.9

21.2

19.7

45–54

17.1

17.4

16.5

17.3

16.5

19.6

12.7

14.3

55–64

10.2

10.7

9.4

10.2

10.0

11.6

8.0

8.6

≥ 65

6.7

8.5

4.0

7.8

3.7

8.9

3.9

2.0

Gender, %1

Men

51.8

58.4

42.0

56.8

37.5

55.3

50.8

36.5

Women

48.2

41.6

58.0

43.2

62.5

44.7

49.2

63.5

Occupational grade, %2

AB

17.9

20.4

14.2

19.8

12.4

20.1

16.4

10.3

C1

25.1

26.0

23.7

26.6

21.1

26.7

23.7

20.6

C2

25.4

28.0

21.7

27.0

20.9

25.8

26.3

21.8

D

18.2

17.5

19.2

17.8

19.4

18.0

17.3

21.4

E

13.3

8.0

21.1

8.8

26.1

9.4

16.3

25.9

Smoking, %

Daily

67.4

67.1

67.9

67.3

67.8

66.8

66.9

71.6

Non-daily

10.9

11.5

10.0

11.3

10.0

10.9

11.0

10.3

Stopped last year

21.7

21.4

22.1

21.5

22.2

22.3

22.0

18.1

Type of cigarette, %

Manufactured

47.4

51.7

41.1

50.4

39.1

50.8

44.5

37.3

Roll-your-own

43.0

5.3

6.3

5.0

7.6

4.7

6.9

8.0

Mix

5.7

39.0

48.9

40.3

50.6

40.2

45.8

50.5

Unknown

3.9

4.0

3.7

4.3

2.6

4.3

2.9

4.2

Time since most recent quit attempt, %

< 1 month

16.1

15.7

16.6

15.1

18.7

16.1

15.6

16.8

1 to 6 months

47.2

46.6

48.0

47.5

46.0

44.8

50.8

50.8

> 6 months

36.8

37.7

35.4

37.3

35.3

39.1

33.7

32.4

Unplanned quit attempt, %

 

51.7

51.3

52.2

52.2

50.1

51.8

49.1

57.6

Stopped without cutting down, %

 

53.8

52.5

55.7

54.6

51.4

54.4

51.9

54.7

Strength of urges to smoke, M (SD)

 

1.75 (1.20)

1.65 (1.15)

1.89 (1.26)

1.68 (1.16)

1.94 (1.28)

1.64 (1.14)

1.82 (1.22)

2.10 (1.36)

Npast-year quit attempts, M (SD)

 

1.78 (5.17)

1.78 (5.48)

1.78 (4.68)

1.78 (5.47)

1.77 (4.21)

1.70 (5.44)

1.97 (5.51)

1.69 (1.88)

  1. Unweighted n = 1956
  2. 1A provided third option was not used by anyone in the included sample
  3. 2AB: higher or intermediate managerial, administrative or professional occupation; C1: supervisory or clerical and junior managerial, administrative or professional; C2: skilled manual workers; D: semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers; E: state pensioners, casual and lowest grade workers, unemployed with state benefits only