Smoking behaviours among smokers by type of smoking policy in their workplace imposed for 3 or 10 years
| Policy in place for 3 years | Policy in place for 10 years | |||
| Restricted (N=33)% | Smoke free (N=126)% | Restricted (N=355)% | Smoke free (N=106)% | |
| Cigarettes smoked daily | ||||
| Light | 6.1 | 31.7* | 21.1 | 30.2 |
| Moderate | 60.6 | 55.6 | 44.8 | 48.1 |
| Heavy | 33.3 | 12.7* | 27.3 | 20.8 |
| Very heavy | – | – | 6.8 | 0.9* |
| Time to first cigarette after waking (min) | ||||
| <5 | 6.1 | 4.8 | 17.2 | 9.4* |
| 6–30 | 57.6 | 33.3* | 36.6 | 32.1 |
| 31–60 | 30.3 | 23.0 | 16.1 | 20.8 |
| >60 | 6.0 | 38.9* | 30.1 | 37.7 |
| Quitting intention | ||||
| No intention in next 6 months | 33.3 | 51.6 | 55.8 | 58.5 |
| Intend quitting within 6 months | 57.6 | 39.7 | 36.0 | 36.8 |
| Intend quitting within 1 month | 9.1 | 8.7 | 8.2 | 4.7 |
| No. of quitting attempts in past 12 months | ||||
| 0 | 33.3 | 14.3* | 48.5 | 46.2 |
| 1 | 24.2 | 14.3 | 20.0 | 14.2 |
| 2 | 24.2 | 32.5 | 9.0 | 10.4 |
| >2 | 18.2 | 38.9* | 22.5 | 29.2 |
| Self-confidence about quitting | ||||
| Will not succeed | 6.1 | 9.5 | 10.1 | 10.4 |
| May not succeed | 18.2 | 12.7 | 16.3 | 11.3 |
| Uncertain | 45.5 | 20.6* | 25.4 | 30.2 |
| May succeed | 24.2 | 39.7 | 28.7 | 36.8 |
| Will succeed | 6.0 | 17.5* | 19.5 | 11.3 |
| Willing to attend company cessation programme | ||||
| Yes | 55.6 | 75.8 | 71.7 | 70.0 |
| No | 44.4 | 24.2* | 28.3 | 30.0 |
↵* p<0.05.