BRFSS 2004 - North Carolina Counties and Regions: (In the last 12 months, on how many visits were you advised to quit smoking by a doctor or other health provider?*)

2004 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

Smoking Cessation

In the last 12 months, on how many visits were you advised to quit smoking by a doctor or other health provider?*

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	Total Respond.^	1 visit	2 visits	3 visits	4 visits	None
North Carolina	2,832	664	24.2	22.2-26.2	429	14.8	13.3-16.6	230	8.5	7.3- 9.9	652	22.0	20.1-23.9	857	30.5	28.4-32.7
COUNTY/REGIONS***
Alamance	86	18	16.2	9.8-25.6	12	15.8	8.6-27.3	5	4.8	1.9-11.6	20	22.7	14.5-33.7	31	40.5	29.0-53.1
Buncombe	72	18	28.6	18.1-42.0	7	6.7	2.9-14.7	11	18.4	10.2-31.1	16	19.6	11.8-30.8	20	26.7	16.9-39.4
Cabarrus	83	19	25.0	15.4-37.9	11	12.3	6.6-21.6	6	7.6	3.1-17.3	22	25.1	16.4-36.4	25	30.0	20.2-42.0
Catawba	65	12	20.2	10.8-34.6	8	13.1	5.9-26.7	7	16.8	5.4-41.6	20	27.1	16.4-41.4	18	22.8	13.4-36.0
Cumberland	83	19	20.5	12.6-31.5	12	14.9	8.1-25.8	8	10.4	4.8-21.0	24	29.9	19.9-42.4	20	24.2	15.3-36.2
Davidson	85	22	20.4	13.2-30.3	19	22.9	14.2-34.9	8	14.1	6.5-27.9	12	13.3	6.7-24.6	24	29.2	19.4-41.5
Durham	66	14	21.2	11.8-35.1	12	14.8	8.0-25.6	4	5.7	2.1-14.9	11	17.8	9.5-30.8	25	40.5	27.8-54.7
Forsyth	94	16	18.5	10.8-29.9	15	12.6	7.0-21.6	8	7.8	3.7-15.7	22	25.6	16.4-37.5	33	35.5	24.9-47.7
Gaston	71	12	15.1	8.2-26.4	15	20.6	12.1-32.7	9	16.9	8.6-30.5	14	18.2	10.2-30.3	21	29.2	18.8-42.3
Guilford	62	13	19.3	10.4-33.0	10	16.1	8.3-28.8	6	7.3	2.9-17.3	13	24.2	13.8-39.0	20	33.2	21.1-47.9
Iredell	88	21	22.2	13.9-33.6	18	18.5	10.9-29.8	9	15.6	8.0-28.4	12	15.4	8.5-26.3	28	28.3	19.1-39.7
Johnston	94	20	23.2	14.6-35.0	10	12.2	6.1-23.0	6	5.7	2.3-13.5	22	25.3	16.2-37.3	36	33.5	23.9-44.7
Mecklenburg	89	31	33.7	23.6-45.5	11	12.5	6.5-22.7	8	10.4	5.1-20.1	9	8.7	4.0-18.0	30	34.7	24.1-47.0
New Hanover	60	20	29.6	18.7-43.4	8	15.4	7.3-29.7	6	6.8	2.9-15.2	10	16.7	8.6-29.7	16	31.5	19.8-46.3
Onslow	93	18	24.4	15.2-36.9	17	17.4	10.6-27.3	7	9.3	3.4-23.0	20	17.9	11.2-27.6	31	30.8	21.5-42.0
Orange	55	17	29.4	18.2-43.7	6	14.4	6.1-30.4	2	2.5	0.6-10.1	9	13.7	6.7-26.0	21	40.0	26.5-55.1
Pitt	68	18	27.5	16.9-41.5	13	21.2	11.8-35.0	4	5.0	1.8-13.1	16	19.2	11.4-30.3	17	27.1	16.5-41.2
Randolph	66	21	34.1	21.9-49.0	9	14.3	7.0-26.9	7	13.0	5.5-27.6	12	17.1	9.4-29.0	17	21.5	12.4-34.7
Robeson	88	17	22.0	13.2-34.2	20	18.9	11.8-28.9	4	3.7	1.3- 9.8	14	14.4	8.0-24.5	33	41.0	29.6-53.5
Rowan	106	27	24.1	15.6-35.1	17	14.1	8.6-22.4	3	2.8	0.9- 8.6	32	30.2	21.4-40.8	27	28.8	19.5-40.3
Union	73	19	29.8	19.4-42.7	10	10.8	5.3-20.8	5	5.5	2.1-13.8	12	17.2	9.6-28.9	27	36.7	25.6-49.3
Wake	76	21	27.0	17.4-39.5	14	20.2	11.5-33.1	2	2.9	0.7-11.3	12	16.3	8.9-28.0	27	33.5	23.0-46.0
Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico	66	19	28.7	17.5-43.2	9	16.9	8.8-30.1	8	10.5	5.1-20.7	13	17.3	9.7-29.0	17	26.6	16.0-40.8
Northeast Partnership II	91	13	11.7	6.5-20.2	11	12.5	6.4-23.1	9	11.6	5.9-21.6	31	30.6	21.2-42.1	27	33.5	23.2-45.7
Northeast Partnership I	69	14	22.8	13.3-36.3	9	15.4	7.9-27.8	5	7.3	2.6-18.8	14	17.0	9.8-27.9	27	37.4	25.7-50.9
Franklin/Nash/Wilson	62	9	12.0	5.7-23.4	10	19.5	10.3-33.9	4	6.1	2.0-16.7	17	25.7	15.6-39.3	22	36.8	23.7-52.2
Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne	96	20	27.5	17.9-39.8	16	14.7	8.7-23.8	8	10.9	5.2-21.7	23	16.9	10.5-26.0	29	30.0	20.4-41.8
Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender	78	19	25.6	16.0-38.5	9	10.1	4.9-19.6	5	4.9	1.9-12.1	26	34.6	23.9-47.2	19	24.8	15.5-37.2
Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance	87	19	20.6	12.9-31.4	15	16.8	9.9-27.0	6	10.0	4.3-21.4	24	27.1	18.2-38.5	23	25.5	16.5-37.2
Chatham/Lee/Moore	74	17	23.9	14.5-36.7	12	13.4	7.5-23.0	5	5.4	2.1-13.1	18	25.9	16.3-38.6	22	31.5	21.0-44.2
Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly	120	31	29.7	20.9-40.4	14	11.3	6.2-19.9	13	8.4	4.5-15.1	38	31.4	22.8-41.5	24	19.2	12.5-28.3
Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	89	22	21.6	14.1-31.8	16	20.1	12.1-31.6	6	5.0	2.2-11.2	19	23.4	14.8-35.0	26	29.8	20.1-41.8
Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes	67	21	33.0	21.6-46.9	9	11.3	5.7-21.2	9	13.0	6.4-24.4	15	23.1	13.6-36.6	13	19.6	11.1-32.1
Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln	92	18	18.5	11.2-29.2	10	6.7	3.4-12.8	9	8.2	3.9-16.6	25	30.6	20.6-42.8	30	36.0	25.0-48.8
Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)	118	29	28.5	19.4-39.8	15	15.8	8.8-26.8	8	7.1	3.5-14.1	35	23.1	15.0-33.9	31	25.4	16.9-36.3
NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**
Yes	181	31	16.7	11.3-23.9	25	16.6	11.0-24.2	16	9.4	5.6-15.6	49	23.5	17.4-30.9	60	33.8	26.3-42.3
No	2,651	633	24.6	22.5-26.7	404	14.7	13.1-16.5	214	8.5	7.2- 9.9	603	21.9	20.0-23.9	797	30.3	28.1-32.6
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	970	210	23.1	19.9-26.6	148	15.2	12.7-18.1	78	8.2	6.3-10.7	240	22.8	19.9-26.0	294	30.7	27.1-34.5
Piedmont	1,528	372	24.5	21.9-27.3	241	15.7	13.5-18.1	117	8.3	6.7-10.3	325	20.5	18.1-23.1	473	31.1	28.2-34.1
Western NC	334	82	25.1	19.8-31.3	40	11.5	7.7-16.6	35	9.9	6.9-14.0	87	25.1	19.7-31.3	90	28.5	22.7-35.0
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****
Mountain AHEC	186	45	27.3	20.0-36.1	21	12.7	7.4-20.9	19	10.7	6.7-16.7	50	22.6	15.9-30.9	51	26.7	19.6-35.3
Northwest	621	141	20.1	16.6-24.2	102	14.0	11.2-17.5	54	9.6	7.0-13.2	142	24.6	20.4-29.3	182	31.6	26.9-36.6
Charlotte	384	98	28.4	23.0-34.5	56	13.7	9.9-18.6	34	10.5	7.1-15.2	76	17.3	13.3-22.2	120	30.1	24.8-36.1
Greensboro	333	90	25.3	20.0-31.5	48	16.0	11.6-21.7	23	6.2	3.8-10.1	71	22.5	17.2-28.9	101	29.9	24.0-36.7
Southern Regional	325	72	23.7	18.4-29.9	51	13.3	9.7-18.1	29	9.9	6.4-15.1	78	23.3	18.3-29.2	95	29.7	24.1-36.1
Coastal	138	36	24.7	17.2-34.1	18	12.4	7.5-19.8	13	8.0	4.0-15.3	33	24.2	17.1-33.1	38	30.7	22.1-41.0
Wake	363	83	23.7	18.5-29.9	55	16.8	12.2-22.8	22	5.7	3.5- 9.2	78	20.0	15.4-25.6	125	33.7	27.8-40.2
Area L	109	15	11.3	6.6-18.8	18	18.5	11.2-28.8	10	7.8	3.9-14.8	25	23.0	15.4-33.0	41	39.4	29.5-50.2
Eastern	362	81	27.1	21.4-33.7	60	18.0	13.6-23.4	26	7.6	4.9-11.7	98	22.5	18.0-27.7	97	24.8	19.9-30.5

Total
Respond.^

1 visit

2 visits

3 visits

4 visits

None

C.I.(95%)

North Carolina

2,832

664

24.2

22.2-26.2

429

14.8

13.3-16.6

230

8.5

7.3- 9.9

652

22.0

20.1-23.9

857

30.5

28.4-32.7

COUNTY/REGIONS***

Alamance

16.2

9.8-25.6

15.8

8.6-27.3

4.8

1.9-11.6

22.7

14.5-33.7

40.5

29.0-53.1

Buncombe

28.6

18.1-42.0

6.7

2.9-14.7

18.4

10.2-31.1

19.6

11.8-30.8

26.7

16.9-39.4

Cabarrus

25.0

15.4-37.9

12.3

6.6-21.6

7.6

3.1-17.3

25.1

16.4-36.4

30.0

20.2-42.0

Catawba

20.2

10.8-34.6

13.1

5.9-26.7

16.8

5.4-41.6

27.1

16.4-41.4

22.8

13.4-36.0

Cumberland

20.5

12.6-31.5

14.9

8.1-25.8

10.4

4.8-21.0

29.9

19.9-42.4

24.2

15.3-36.2

Davidson

20.4

13.2-30.3

22.9

14.2-34.9

14.1

6.5-27.9

13.3

6.7-24.6

29.2

19.4-41.5

Durham

21.2

11.8-35.1

14.8

8.0-25.6

5.7

2.1-14.9

17.8

9.5-30.8

40.5

27.8-54.7

Forsyth

18.5

10.8-29.9

12.6

7.0-21.6

7.8

3.7-15.7

25.6

16.4-37.5

35.5

24.9-47.7

Gaston

15.1

8.2-26.4

20.6

12.1-32.7

16.9

8.6-30.5

18.2

10.2-30.3

29.2

18.8-42.3

Guilford

19.3

10.4-33.0

16.1

8.3-28.8

7.3

2.9-17.3

24.2

13.8-39.0

33.2

21.1-47.9

Iredell

22.2

13.9-33.6

18.5

10.9-29.8

15.6

8.0-28.4

15.4

8.5-26.3

28.3

19.1-39.7

Johnston

23.2

14.6-35.0

12.2

6.1-23.0

5.7

2.3-13.5

25.3

16.2-37.3

33.5

23.9-44.7

Mecklenburg

33.7

23.6-45.5

12.5

6.5-22.7

10.4

5.1-20.1

8.7

4.0-18.0

34.7

24.1-47.0

New Hanover

29.6

18.7-43.4

15.4

7.3-29.7

6.8

2.9-15.2

16.7

8.6-29.7

31.5

19.8-46.3

Onslow

24.4

15.2-36.9

17.4

10.6-27.3

9.3

3.4-23.0

17.9

11.2-27.6

30.8

21.5-42.0

Orange

29.4

18.2-43.7

14.4

6.1-30.4

2.5

0.6-10.1

13.7

6.7-26.0

40.0

26.5-55.1

Pitt

27.5

16.9-41.5

21.2

11.8-35.0

5.0

1.8-13.1

19.2

11.4-30.3

27.1

16.5-41.2

Randolph

34.1

21.9-49.0

14.3

7.0-26.9

13.0

5.5-27.6

17.1

9.4-29.0

21.5

12.4-34.7

Robeson

22.0

13.2-34.2

18.9

11.8-28.9

3.7

1.3- 9.8

14.4

8.0-24.5

41.0

29.6-53.5

Rowan

106

24.1

15.6-35.1

14.1

8.6-22.4

2.8

0.9- 8.6

30.2

21.4-40.8

28.8

19.5-40.3

Union

29.8

19.4-42.7

10.8

5.3-20.8

5.5

2.1-13.8

17.2

9.6-28.9

36.7

25.6-49.3

Wake

27.0

17.4-39.5

20.2

11.5-33.1

2.9

0.7-11.3

16.3

8.9-28.0

33.5

23.0-46.0

Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico

28.7

17.5-43.2

16.9

8.8-30.1

10.5

5.1-20.7

17.3

9.7-29.0

26.6

16.0-40.8

Northeast Partnership II

11.7

6.5-20.2

12.5

6.4-23.1

11.6

5.9-21.6

30.6

21.2-42.1

33.5

23.2-45.7

Northeast Partnership I

22.8

13.3-36.3

15.4

7.9-27.8

7.3

2.6-18.8

17.0

9.8-27.9

37.4

25.7-50.9

Franklin/Nash/Wilson

12.0

5.7-23.4

19.5

10.3-33.9

6.1

2.0-16.7

25.7

15.6-39.3

36.8

23.7-52.2

Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne

27.5

17.9-39.8

14.7

8.7-23.8

10.9

5.2-21.7

16.9

10.5-26.0

30.0

20.4-41.8

Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender

25.6

16.0-38.5

10.1

4.9-19.6

4.9

1.9-12.1

34.6

23.9-47.2

24.8

15.5-37.2

Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance

20.6

12.9-31.4

16.8

9.9-27.0

10.0

4.3-21.4

27.1

18.2-38.5

25.5

16.5-37.2

Chatham/Lee/Moore

23.9

14.5-36.7

13.4

7.5-23.0

5.4

2.1-13.1

25.9

16.3-38.6

31.5

21.0-44.2

Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly

120

29.7

20.9-40.4

11.3

6.2-19.9

8.4

4.5-15.1

31.4

22.8-41.5

19.2

12.5-28.3

Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

21.6

14.1-31.8

20.1

12.1-31.6

5.0

2.2-11.2

23.4

14.8-35.0

29.8

20.1-41.8

Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes

33.0

21.6-46.9

11.3

5.7-21.2

13.0

6.4-24.4

23.1

13.6-36.6

19.6

11.1-32.1

Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln

18.5

11.2-29.2

6.7

3.4-12.8

8.2

3.9-16.6

30.6

20.6-42.8

36.0

25.0-48.8

Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)

118

28.5

19.4-39.8

15.8

8.8-26.8

7.1

3.5-14.1

23.1

15.0-33.9

25.4

16.9-36.3

NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**

Yes

181

16.7

11.3-23.9

16.6

11.0-24.2

9.4

5.6-15.6

23.5

17.4-30.9

33.8

26.3-42.3

2,651

633

24.6

22.5-26.7

404

14.7

13.1-16.5

214

8.5

7.2- 9.9

603

21.9

20.0-23.9

797

30.3

28.1-32.6

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

970

210

23.1

19.9-26.6

148

15.2

12.7-18.1

8.2

6.3-10.7

240

22.8

19.9-26.0

294

30.7

27.1-34.5

Piedmont

1,528

372

24.5

21.9-27.3

241

15.7

13.5-18.1

117

8.3

6.7-10.3

325

20.5

18.1-23.1

473

31.1

28.2-34.1

Western NC

334

25.1

19.8-31.3

11.5

7.7-16.6

9.9

6.9-14.0

25.1

19.7-31.3

28.5

22.7-35.0

AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****

Mountain AHEC

186

27.3

20.0-36.1

12.7

7.4-20.9

10.7

6.7-16.7

22.6

15.9-30.9

26.7

19.6-35.3

Northwest

621

141

20.1

16.6-24.2

102

14.0

11.2-17.5

9.6

7.0-13.2

142

24.6

20.4-29.3

182

31.6

26.9-36.6

Charlotte

384

28.4

23.0-34.5

13.7

9.9-18.6

10.5

7.1-15.2

17.3

13.3-22.2

120

30.1

24.8-36.1

Greensboro

333

25.3

20.0-31.5

16.0

11.6-21.7

6.2

3.8-10.1

22.5

17.2-28.9

101

29.9

24.0-36.7

Southern Regional

325

23.7

18.4-29.9

13.3

9.7-18.1

9.9

6.4-15.1

23.3

18.3-29.2

29.7

24.1-36.1

Coastal

138

24.7

17.2-34.1

12.4

7.5-19.8

8.0

4.0-15.3

24.2

17.1-33.1

30.7

22.1-41.0

Wake

363

23.7

18.5-29.9

16.8

12.2-22.8

5.7

3.5- 9.2

20.0

15.4-25.6

125

33.7

27.8-40.2

Area L

109

11.3

6.6-18.8

18.5

11.2-28.8

7.8

3.9-14.8

23.0

15.4-33.0

39.4

29.5-50.2

Eastern

362

27.1

21.4-33.7

18.0

13.6-23.4

7.6

4.9-11.7

22.5

18.0-27.7

24.8

19.9-30.5

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*Asked of respondents who stopped smoking within the past year or now smoke every day or some days AND who saw a doctor, nurse, or other health professional in the past 12 months.

^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

** Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Edgecombe, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Northeast NC I and II regions combined.

*** Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (AHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

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