Effects of morbidity on smoking cessation: a national smoking cessation program

Table 2 Comparison of participants’ characteristics with those of current smokers in the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

	Participants (N = 1245)	Current smokers in the KNHANES (N = 1125)	p-value^a
Sex			< 0.001
Male	1118 (89.80)	940 (83.56)
Female	127 (10.20)	185 (16.44)
Age, year
Mean ± SD	48.50 ± 12.55	46.29 ± 15.10	< 0.001
< 50	647 (51.97)	683 (60.71)	< 0.001
≥ 50	598 (48.03)	442 (39.29)
Disease
HTN	241 (19.36)	232 (20.62)	0.442
DM	154 (12.37)	104 (9.24)	0.015
DL	95 (7.63)	146 (12.98)	< 0.001
No. of CVD			< 0.001
0	830 (66.67)	805 (71.56)
1	345 (27.71)	188 (16.71)
2	65 (5.22)	102 (9.07)
3	5 (0.40)	30 (2.67)
COPD	64 (5.14)	31 (4.94)	0.849
MDD	45 (3.61)	43 (4.03)	0.600

KNHANES Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, SD standard deviation, HTN hypertensive diseases, DM diabetes mellitus, DL disorders of lipoprotein metabolism and other lipidemias, CVD cardiovascular diseases (hypertensive diseases, diabetes mellitus, or disorders of lipoprotein metabolism and other lipidemias), COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, MDD major depressive disorder
^ap value from a χ² test for binary variables or t-test for continuous variables, comparing differences between any two groups

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