New smoke-free environments legislation stimulates calls to a national Quitline: Table 1

Abstract
We analysed routinely collected data on smokers who registered with the Quitline to undertake a quit attempt, comparing the period from 1 December 2004 to 31 January 2005 (the “intervention period”) with the same period 12 months previously (the “pre-intervention period”). The same particular months were selected since caller registration rates vary widely throughout the year by season. The Factiva electronic database for newspaper articles was also searched for articles in the “New Zealand major papers” section of the database that mentioned “smoking” or “smokefree” (during the two periods).