Effectiveness of motivational interviewing, health education and brief advice in a population of smokers who are not ready to quit

Table 2 Average sojourn time (excursion time), standard error (SE), and 95% lower and upper bounds associated with the MC model. For motivational interviewing, the sojourn time was much shorter than the other two interventions

	Estimates	SE	Lower	Upper
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
unmotivated	2.1041	2.7413	0.1637	27.0420
indecisive	0.4441	1.0043	0.0053	37.3495
motivated	0.4704	1.1268	0.0044	51.4695
Health Education (HE)
unmotivated	15.883	2.3698	11.8558	21.2784
indecisive	9.6538	4.2429	4.0793	22.8459
motivated	7.7423	2.7391	3.8702	15.4884
Brief Advice (BA)
unmotivated	10.4213	2.6934	6.2796	17.2948
indecisive	8.3947	2.6351	4.5375	15.5309
motivated	24.1047	14.0375	7.6984	75.4752

Note: The confidence intervals were calculated by simulating 1000 random vectors from the asymptotic multivariate normal distribution implied by the maximum likelihood estimates of the log transition intensities

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