Mental health and smoking cessation—a population survey in England

Table 5 Associations between mental health and support used during quit attempts

	Non-evidence-based			NRT over the counter			E-cigarettes			Prescription and/or behavioural support
	Used by, %	_adjOR, 95% CI¹	p	Used by, %	_adjOR, 95% CI¹	p	Used by, %	_adjOR, 95% CI¹	p	Used by, %	_adjOR, 95% CI¹	p
Ever diagnosis
No	42.3	Ref		13.5	Ref		33.9	Ref		10.2	Ref
Yes	41.6	0.91, 0.74–1.10	0.33	9.8	0.66, 0.48–0.89	0.006	37.0	1.17, 0.96–1.43	0.12	11.6	1.34, 0.99–1.82	0.061
Past-year treatment
No	42.6	Ref		12.4	Ref		34.9	Ref		10.1	Ref
Yes	40.0	0.90, 0.72–1.12,	0.34	10.9	0.83, 0.59–1.16	0.28	36.1	1.03, 0.83–1.29	0.77	12.8	1.42, 1.02–1.97	0.039
Past-month distress
None	41.1	Ref		14.1	Ref		34.2	Ref		10.5	Ref
Moderate	42.5	1.07, 0.86–1.32	0.57	10.2	0.69, 0.50–0.97	0.030	37.6	1.06, 0.85–1.32	0.61	9.8	1.11, 0.78–1.57	0.58
Serious	45.5	1.15, 0.85–1.56	0.36	6.1	0.35, 0.19–0.64	0.001	34.0	0.91, 0.66–1.24	0.53	14.3	2.05, 1.32–3.18	0.001

Weighted % who used each type of support, logistic regressions unweighted
Unweighted n = 1956
Bold figures indicate that the confidence interval does not include 1
¹Adjusted for age, gender, occupational grade, abrupt quit, unplanned quit and urges to smoke. Support used is hierarchically dummy-coded

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