SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

BRFSS Survey Results 2001 for Nationwide

Tobacco Use

During the past 12 months, have you stopped smoking for one day or longer because you were trying to quit smoking?*

Back to Tobacco Use. Select a different topic for Nationwide:
 View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.#		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
All Participants 48,422 26,522 55.7 54.9-56.4 21,900 44.3 43.6-45.1
Alabama 685 362 53.4 49.2-57.6 323 46.6 42.4-50.8
Alaska 817 472 60.9 55.6-65.8 345 39.1 34.2-44.4
Arizona 704 389 56.8 51.4-62.0 315 43.2 38.0-48.6
Arkansas 756 392 53.0 48.8-57.1 364 47.0 42.9-51.2
California 705 360 52.9 48.5-57.3 345 47.1 42.7-51.5
Colorado 458 235 51.8 46.7-56.9 223 48.2 43.1-53.3
Connecticut 1,625 917 57.1 54.0-60.1 708 42.9 39.9-46.0
Delaware 863 448 52.5 48.1-56.9 415 47.5 43.1-51.9
District of Colum 391 241 59.6 53.5-65.3 150 40.4 34.7-46.5
Florida 1,039 560 55.9 52.3-59.4 479 44.1 40.6-47.7
Georgia 1,079 608 59.2 55.5-62.7 471 40.8 37.3-44.5
Hawaii 934 540 58.8 54.4-63.1 394 41.2 36.9-45.6
Idaho 945 523 53.6 49.7-57.4 422 46.4 42.6-50.3
Illinois 938 526 57.2 53.6-60.8 412 42.8 39.2-46.4
Indiana 1,081 576 53.0 49.7-56.3 505 47.0 43.7-50.3
Iowa 767 379 51.3 47.2-55.4 388 48.7 44.6-52.8
Kansas 1,056 534 50.9 47.6-54.3 522 49.1 45.7-52.4
Kentucky 2,296 1,139 47.9 44.9-51.0 1,157 52.1 49.0-55.1
Louisiana 1,220 697 56.6 53.4-59.7 523 43.4 40.3-46.6
Maine 549 321 60.1 55.2-64.8 228 39.9 35.2-44.8
Maryland 888 490 56.6 52.0-61.0 398 43.4 39.0-48.0
Massachusetts 1,754 993 56.6 53.7-59.5 761 43.4 40.5-46.3
Michigan 957 550 58.4 54.7-61.9 407 41.6 38.1-45.3
Minnesota 857 480 59.6 55.9-63.2 377 40.4 36.8-44.1
Mississippi 737 418 56.2 51.8-60.4 319 43.8 39.6-48.2
Missouri 1,097 565 53.8 49.8-57.7 532 46.2 42.3-50.2
Montana 795 394 48.1 43.1-53.2 401 51.9 46.8-56.9
Nebraska 754 384 51.3 47.2-55.4 370 48.7 44.6-52.8
Nevada 683 361 50.6 45.4-55.8 322 49.4 44.2-54.6
New Hampshire 954 547 58.6 55.0-62.1 407 41.4 37.9-45.0
New Jersey 1,299 757 58.2 54.6-61.7 542 41.8 38.3-45.4
New Mexico 831 439 55.6 51.5-59.5 392 44.4 40.5-48.5
New York 922 507 57.2 53.3-60.9 415 42.8 39.1-46.7
North Carolina 1,513 844 55.8 51.8-59.7 669 44.2 40.3-48.2
North Dakota 574 326 57.8 53.4-62.2 248 42.2 37.8-46.6
Ohio 926 473 50.4 46.6-54.3 453 49.6 45.7-53.4
Oklahoma 1,274 662 52.3 48.5-56.2 612 47.7 43.8-51.5
Oregon 534 320 59.9 55.2-64.4 214 40.1 35.6-44.8
Pennsylvania 870 448 53.7 49.7-57.7 422 46.3 42.3-50.3
Rhode Island 956 567 61.1 57.4-64.8 389 38.9 35.2-42.6
South Carolina 823 454 57.5 53.6-61.4 369 42.5 38.6-46.4
South Dakota 1,079 584 55.2 51.6-58.7 495 44.8 41.3-48.4
Tennessee 708 396 57.3 52.8-61.6 312 42.7 38.4-47.2
Texas 1,308 734 58.2 55.1-61.2 574 41.8 38.8-44.9
Utah 532 344 65.8 60.3-70.8 188 34.2 29.2-39.7
Vermont 946 511 55.3 51.5-59.0 435 44.7 41.0-48.5
Virginia 664 328 52.0 47.6-56.4 336 48.0 43.6-52.4
Washington 938 604 63.9 60.4-67.3 334 36.1 32.7-39.6
West Virginia 856 433 52.9 49.1-56.6 423 47.1 43.4-50.9
Wisconsin 809 437 56.1 52.0-60.1 372 43.9 39.9-48.0
Wyoming 705 340 49.7 45.6-53.8 365 50.3 46.2-54.4
Guam 252 148 61.7 54.6-68.3 104 38.3 31.7-45.4
Puerto Rico 479 333 71.8 66.0-76.9 146 28.2 23.1-34.0
Virgin Islands 240 132 54.0 46.1-61.7 108 46.0 38.3-53.9

Back to Tobacco Use.

+ Only participating states or terretories are presented here.

* This question was asked only of respondents who reported smoking 100 or more cigarettes in her/his entire life and currently smoking daily or occasionally.

#Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50. N = Cell Size, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 20SEP02.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook