Of the 1,684 smokers analyzed for this report, 172 (10%) were of the four minority races, and 1,512 (90%) were white. A comparison of demographics and abstinence rates between black and other minorities showed that no significant difference existed between the diverse minorities enrolled in this study. The results in Table 1 show that blacks and other minorities were not significantly different on any of the baseline characteristics or in smoking abstinence rates. The smoking abstinence rates at end of medication were 25% (2/8) for the Asians, 16% (22/138) for the African Americans, 11% (2/19) for the Native Americans, and 29% (2/7) for the other participants. For this reason and in order to increase our study power, we combined the four minority populations and made a larger comparison of the minority population with the white smokers. Table 1Demographics of blacks versus other minoritiesBlack (N = 138)Other (N = 34)Total (N = 172)p value Age 0.0688 Mean (±SD)47.1 (10.37)43.2 (14.38)46.3 (11.33) Gender 0.2738 Female91 (65.9%)19 (55.9%)110 (64%) Male47 (34.1%)15 (44.1%)62 (36%) Marital status 0.0846 Missing101 Never married31 (22.6%)5 (14.7%)36 (21.1%) Married42
