Describe your audience and research goal. Makeform creates a smoking survey with neutral questions, consistent time frames, useful choices, and paths for each smoking status.
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Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Adults taking part in a public-health research project
Format
Anonymous survey with skip logic and frequency scales
Prompt size
332 chars
Example survey structure
Anonymous survey with skip logic and frequency scales
Have you ever smoked, even occasionally?
On how many of the past 30 days did you smoke?
How many cigarettes do you usually smoke on a smoking day?
Have you tried to stop smoking in the past 12 months?
How strongly do you support smoke-free public spaces?
Suggested analysis tags
Never smoked
Current use
Former use
Use one recall period, such as the past 30 days, for every recent-behavior question.
Step 1
Define
population, purpose, and recall period
Step 2
Branch
different paths by smoking status
Step 3
Collect
anonymous habits and attitudes
Step 4
Analyze
consistent response groups and exports
Better survey design
Separate behavior, awareness, and opinion. Clear time frames and inclusive choices make answers easier to interpret.
Branch by smoking status so each respondent receives questions that fit their experience.
Use defined frequency bands, consistent scales, and one recall period instead of vague answers.
Omit unneeded identifiers, make sensitive demographics optional, and explain how responses will be used.
Choose your study angle
Start from the audience and decision, then keep only questions that serve that goal.
Classify smoking status, then measure recent frequency within a defined window.
Measure norms and opinions on balanced scales with neutral and unsure options.
Ask about resource awareness and voluntary support without requesting employee identity.
Build a focused questionnaire with optional demographics and analyzable answer formats.
Survey workflow
Give Makeform a focused brief, inspect each path, and test every smoking-status group before sharing.
Name the audience, research goal, privacy approach, and target completion time.
Review definitions, ranges, and time frames. Split questions that cover two ideas.
Preview as a never, former, and current smoker to confirm each path is relevant.
Share the link and export consistently coded responses for your planned analysis.
Question design choices
Specific wording helps respondents interpret questions consistently and makes answers comparable.
Field guide
Adapt these six sections to your study plan, and remove any item you will not analyze.
Eligibility and status
If the study is for adults, confirm eligibility, then distinguish never, former, and current smoking through behavior rather than ambiguous labels.
Recent behavior
Ask about a concrete period such as the past 30 days. Measure both days used and typical quantity because they describe different patterns.
History and change
Ask former smokers about time since last use and, only when relevant, previous patterns or attempts to change.
Attitudes
Measure norms and smoke-free-space views one idea at a time, with a midpoint or unsure option when meaningful.
Context and awareness
Questions about secondhand smoke, resources, or workplaces should connect to a stated objective.
Demographics and privacy
Use broad bands when exact values are unnecessary, make sensitive questions optional, and describe anonymity accurately.
Related tools
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for researchers, students, and workplace wellness teams designing a focused questionnaire.
It studies self-reported smoking status, frequency, attitudes, awareness, or experiences in a defined population. Its scope should follow a stated research purpose.
Screen for ever-use and current status, branch by status, define the recall period, and include only the attitudes, context, and demographics required by the plan.
Ask about observable behavior with specific periods and balanced choices. Avoid judgmental labels. Give attitude statements symmetrical options and include Unsure when meaningful.
That depends on your setup. Remove identity fields, review tracking and integrations, and explain what is stored. Do not promise anonymity when responses can identify people.
It gives never, former, and current smokers relevant paths. Test every branch so respondents do not reach confusing or impossible questions.
Keep only questions the study requires. State the expected effort, remove items you will not analyze, and use a progress indicator for longer surveys.
Yes. Organize responses in Makeform or send them to tools such as Google Sheets. Stable choices and non-overlapping ranges simplify grouping.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier only removes the Makeform badge.
Start with a focused research question.
