Acupuncture for Smoking Cessation in Hong Kong: A Prospective Multicenter Observational Study

Table 3

Logistic regression analysis of acupuncture for smoking cessation.

Factor type	Influence factor	8 weeks		52 weeks
		value	OR (95% CI)	value	OR (95% CI)
Demographical data	Gender	0.21	1.14 (0.92–1.42)	0.64	0.92 (0.65–1.31)
	Age	0.50	0.99 (0.98–1.01)	0.65	1.01 (0.98–1.04)
	Education background	0.18	0.92 (0.82–1.04)	0.82	1.02 (0.84–1.23)
Smoking background	Smoking year	0.72	1.00 (0.98–1.02)	0.24	1.02 (0.99–1.05)
	Cigarettes smoked per day	0.00	0.97 (0.95–0.99)	0.00	1.08 (1.05–1.11)
	FTND	0.00	0.55 (0.52–0.59)	0.00	3.21 (2.82–3.66)
	Previous attempts of smoking cessation	0.32	6.47 (5.40–7.75)	0.53	1.20 (0.68–2.11)
Reason and intentions to smoking cessation	Reason to choose acupuncture	0.82	0.99 (0.90–1.09)	0.87	0.99 (0.84–1.16)
	Importance index	0.05	1.08 (1.00–1.15)	0.87	0.99 (0.88–1.11)
	Confidence index	0.05	1.07 (1.00–1.16)	0.68	1.03 (0.91–1.15)
	Preparation index	0.88	0.99 (0.92–1.08)	0.86	1.01 (0.88–1.16)
Treatment condition	Total sessions of acupuncture	0.01	1.05 (1.01–1.09)	0.00	0.57 (0.51–0.62)
	Whether finished 8 acupuncture treatments in the first month	0.00	0.45 (0.21–0.97)	0.07	1.96 (0.95–4.02)
	Whether finished 8 acupuncture treatments	0.24	0.04 (0.02–0.09)	0.10	0.97 (0.45–2.10)