State-Specific Prevalence of Quit Attempts Among Adult Cigarette Smokers - United States, 2011–2017

From 1965-2017, the prevalence of cigarette smoking among US adults aged ≥18 years decreased from 42.4% to 14.0%, in part because of increases in smoking cessation. Increasing smoking cessation can reduce smoking-related disease, death, and health care expenditures. Increases in cessation are driven...

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Published inMMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Vol. 68; no. 28; pp. 621 - 626
Main Authors Walton, Kimp, Wang, Teresa W, Schauer, Gillian L, Hu, Sean, McGruder, Henraya F, Jamal, Ahmed, Babb, Stephen
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published Atlanta U.S. Center for Disease Control 19.07.2019
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Adults
Age
Cigarette smoking
Cigarettes
Colonies & territories
Counseling services
Drug addiction
Expenditures
Health care
Objectives
Public health
Risk analysis
Risk factors
Risk taking
Smoking
Smoking cessation
Tobacco
Transdermal medication
Trends
North Carolina
Atlanta Georgia
New York
Puerto Rico
United States > US
Tennessee
Hawaii
Kansas
Alabama
West Virginia
Washington DC
Mississippi
Illinois
Louisiana
Guam
Georgia
Virginia
Wisconsin
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Summary:From 1965-2017, the prevalence of cigarette smoking among US adults aged ≥18 years decreased from 42.4% to 14.0%, in part because of increases in smoking cessation. Increasing smoking cessation can reduce smoking-related disease, death, and health care expenditures. Increases in cessation are driven in large part by increases in quit attempts. Healthy People 2020 objective 4.1 calls for increasing the proportion of US adult cigarette smokers who made a past-year quit attempt to ≥80%. To assess state-specific trends in the prevalence of past-year quit attempts among adult cigarette smokers, CDC analyzed data from the 2011-2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys for all 50 states, the District of Columbia (DC), Guam, and Puerto Rico. During 2011-2017, quit attempt prevalence increased in four states (Kansas, Louisiana, Virginia, and West Virginia), declined in two states (New York and Tennessee), and did not significantly change in the remaining 44 states, DC, and two territories.
ISSN:0149-2195
1545-861X