The Be Our Ally Beat Smoking (BOABS) study, a randomised controlled trial of an intensive smoking cessation intervention in a remote aboriginal Australian health care setting

Table 4 Secondary endpoints of BOABS Study participants

	Usual care group	Intervention group
Self-reported health as fair/poor	21/94 (22%)	14/49 (29%)
Nicotine dependency score ≤5 [26]^†
Baseline	26/50 (52%)	11/27 (41%)
Final follow-up	34/50 (68%)	18/27 (67%)
Reduced average daily cigarettes by ≥20%	38/74 (51%)	15/35 (43%)
Attempted to quit at any time during the study	36/90 (40%)	27/48 (56%)

Data are number (%) based on the study arm to which participants were originally assigned;
^†Only included participants who had a nicotine dependency score recorded at baseline and final follow-up.

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