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State-Specific Cessation Behaviors Among Adult Cigarette Smokers — United States, 2014–2015
RESEARCH BRIEF — Volume 16 — March 7, 2019
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Figure.
State-level prevalence of interest in quitting smoking, past-year quit attempts, recent smoking cessation, and receipt of a medical doctor’s advice to quit smoking, by quartile — Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey, United States, 2014–2015. Panel A: Interested in quitting was defined as current smokers who reported from 2 to 10 on a 10-point scale ranging from 1 (not at all interested) to 10 (extremely interested) among all current smokers (unweighted n = 22,163). Panel B: Past-year quit attempts were defined as current smokers who reported that they had stopped smoking for at least 1 day or made a serious attempt to stop smoking even for <1 day within the past year and former smokers who quit within the past year among all current smokers and former smokers who quit within the past year (unweighted n = 25,850). Panel C: Recent smoking cessation was defined as quitting smoking within the past year for ≥6 months among current smokers who smoked for ≥2 years and former smokers who quit during the past year (unweighted n = 25,507). Panel D: Receipt of medical doctor’s advice to quit smoking was determined among current smokers who visited a medical doctor within the past year and among former smokers who visited a medical doctor within the year before quitting (unweighted n = 17,247).
| State | Panel A. Interested in Quitting, Quartilea | Panel B. Past-Year Quit Attempts, Quartileb | Panel C. Recent Smoking Cessation, Quartilec | Panel D. Receipt of Medical Doctor’s Advice to Quit, Quartiled |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Alaska | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| Arizona | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Arkansas | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| California | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| Colorado | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Connecticut | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Delaware | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| District of Columbia | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Florida | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Georgia | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Hawaii | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Idaho | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Illinois | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| Indiana | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Iowa | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| Kansas | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Kentucky | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Louisiana | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Maine | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Maryland | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Massachusetts | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Michigan | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Minnesota | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Mississippi | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Missouri | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Montana | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Nebraska | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Nevada | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| New Hampshire | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| New Jersey | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| New Mexico | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| New York | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| North Carolina | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| North Dakota | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Ohio | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Oregon | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Pennsylvania | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Rhode Island | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| South Carolina | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| South Dakota | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| Tennessee | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Texas | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Utah | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Vermont | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Virginia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Washington | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| West Virginia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Wisconsin | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Wyoming | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
a Quartile 1, ≤75.4%; quartile 2, 75.5%–77.8%; quartile 3: 77.9%–80.1%; and quartile 4: ≥80.2%.b Quartile 1, ≤50.9%; quartile 2, 51.0%–54.1%; quartile 3, 54.2%–56.8%; and quartile 4, ≥56.9%.c Quartile 1, ≤6.7%; quartile 2, 6.8%–7.7%; quartile 3, 7.8%–8.7%; and quartile 4, ≥8.8%.d Quartile 1, ≤66.9%; quartile 2, 67.0%–71.4%; quartile 3, 71.5%–73.8%; and quartile 4, ≥73.9%.
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