Wave 1 September 2010 | Wave 2 December 2010 | Wave 3 March 2011 | Wave 4 June 2011 | |
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All smokers | ||||
Awareness of the reimbursement policy (% yes) | 15.4 | 22.6*** | 39.6*** | 47.5*** |
Attention to media coverage about the reimbursement policy† (mean, SD) | 0.40 (0.78) | 0.48 (0.83)*** | 0.87 (0.98)*** | 0.81 (0.96)* |
Smoking cessation attempt (% yes) | 10.6 | 10.4 | 14.2*** | 15.0 |
Smoking cessation success (% yes) | - | 3.3 | 6.3*** | 8.0 |
Use of pharmacological therapy with behavioural counselling or behavioural counselling only‡ (% yes) | 0.7 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.9 |
Use of pharmacological therapy without behavioural counseling§ (% yes) | 1.9 | 1.8 | 2.9* | 3.6 |
All smokers who tried to quit smoking | ||||
Smoking cessation success (% yes) | – | 31.6 | 42.7** | 52.1 |
Use of pharmacological therapy with behavioural counselling or behavioural counselling only (% yes) | 6.6 | 5.6 | 6.8 | 5.6 |
Use of pharmacological therapy without behavioural counselling (% yes) | 17.9 | 17.4 | 19.3 | 22.6 |
*p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001 (difference with the previous wave).
†On a scale from 0 to 3.
‡Reimbursed cessation treatment.
§Unreimbursed cessation treatment.