Smoking rationalisation scores by quit intention
| Rationalisation | Mean (SD) | P value | ||
| Have intention to quit n=744 | No intention to quit n=2966 | Total smokers n=3710 | ||
| Smoking functional beliefs | 3.5 (0.7) | 3.7 (0.7) | 3.6 (0.7) | <0.001 |
| Risk generalisation beliefs | 3.3 (0.7) | 3.6 (0.7) | 3.5 (0.7) | <0.001 |
| Social acceptability beliefs | 3.1 (0.7) | 3.4 (0.7) | 3.3 (0.7) | <0.001 |
| Safe smoking beliefs | 3.0 (0.7) | 3.2 (0.7) | 3.1 (0.7) | <0.001 |
| Self-exempting beliefs | 2.9 (0.8) | 3.1 (0.8) | 3.1 (0.8) | <0.001 |
| Quitting is harmful beliefs | 3.0 (0.8) | 3.2 (0.8) | 3.2 (0.8) | <0.001 |
| Total scale | 3.2 (0.5) | 3.4 (0.5) | 3.3 (0.5) | <0.001 |