Indexing Quit-Smoking Interest among Norwegian Smokers 2019-2021

Table 3

Prediction of future smoking status (“Do you see yourself as a nonsmoker in the future?”) by smoking status.

Prediction of future smoking status	Smoking status			Index score
	Daily (%)	Occasional (%)	All smokers (%)
Yes…	(48.4)	(62.6)	(54.3)	—
Within 12 months	23.7	33.9	28.0	5
Within 1-2 years	10.0	6.8	8.6	4
Within 3-4 years	5.1	3.9	4.6	3
In 5 years or later	2.5	3.7	3.0	2
But do not know when	7.1	14.3	10.1	1
No	17.2	17.1	17.2	0
Do not know	34.3	20.3	28.4	0.5
Total; ()	99.9; (760)	100; (561)	99.9; (1321)

Pearson’s chi-squared test 57,159; significance 0.000.