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Table 1 Baseline comparability of the smokers in the ACt condition and in the control condition after applying the matching procedure in respondents

From: The effectiveness of the Allen Carr smoking cessation training in companies tested in a quasi-experimental design

Variable

ACt condition

Control condition

p-value

Gender, female

50.9%

40%

.12

Level of education

  

.51

Low

25.3%

26.3%

 

Medium

38.9%

31.6%

 

High

35.8%

42.1%

 
 

M (SD)

M (SD)

 

Age

44.4 (8.59)

45.4 (14.1)

.55

Number of cigarettes

16.5 (6.57)

15.9 (8.97)

.58

FTND

3.87 (2.09)

3.74 (2.37)

.66

Pros of quitting

   

Long term

2.18 (0.82)

2.16 (0.84)

.86

Short term

2 (0.67)

1.99 (0.69)

.91

Social

1.79 (0.94)

1.62 (0.97)

.20

Self-evaluative

1.66 (0.67)

1.69 (0.82)

.83

Pros of smoking

   

Cognitive

3.44 (0.73)

3.31 (0.75)

.22

Affective

3.87 (0.76)

3.75 (0.77)

.26

Self-efficacy situations

   

Social

4.56 (1.28)

4.31 (1.23)

.14

Emotional

4.18 (1.39)

4 (1.47)

.38

Habitual

4.93 (1.3)

4.66 (1.41)

.16

  1. Note: Due to missing values, the number of smokers in the ACt condition varied from 93 to 95 and in the control condition from 112 to 114. Univariate analysis of variance was used to test condition differences; only for gender and level of education Chi-square analyses were applied.