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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes Counties

Smoking Cessation

On how many visits did your doctor or health provider recommend or discuss methods and strategies other than medication to assist you with quitting smoking?*

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  Total
Respond.^
1 visit 2 visits 3 visits 4 visits None
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,002 354 11.9 10.4-13.5 226 7.7 6.5- 9.0 76 2.2 1.7- 2.9 244 7.2 6.1- 8.4 2,102 71.1 68.9-73.2
-Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes 67 4 5.5 1.9-14.9 2 2.5 0.6-10.7 2 2.6 0.5-12.8 9 11.0 5.2-21.8 50 78.3 65.1-87.5
GENDER
Male 23 2 4.2 0.9-17.7 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 2 6.6 1.2-28.4 19 89.2 68.9-96.8
Female 44 2 6.6 1.6-23.1 2 4.7 1.1-18.7 2 4.9 0.9-22.0 7 14.8 6.8-29.4 31 68.9 51.8-82.0
RACE
White 61 4 5.8 2.0-15.8 2 2.7 0.6-11.4 2 2.8 0.5-13.6 8 10.0 4.5-21.0 45 78.6 64.9-88.0
Other 6 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 1 26.6 3.8-76.7 5 73.4 23.3-96.2
AGE
18-44 27 1 3.7 0.5-23.1 1 3.3 0.4-20.8 1 4.1 0.5-24.9 3 5.0 1.3-17.4 21 83.9 63.8-93.9
45+ 40 3 7.5 2.3-22.0 1 1.7 0.2-11.1 1 1.0 0.1- 6.7 6 17.8 7.7-36.0 29 72.0 54.1-84.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 34 0 0.0 . - . 1 3.4 0.5-20.6 1 4.2 0.6-24.5 6 15.8 6.6-33.1 26 76.6 57.9-88.6
Some College + 33 4 11.4 3.7-30.1 1 1.6 0.2-11.4 1 0.9 0.1- 6.8 3 5.9 1.5-20.3 24 80.2 59.9-91.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 54 4 6.7 2.3-18.0 2 3.1 0.7-13.0 1 0.6 0.1- 4.0 8 11.9 5.3-24.7 39 77.7 62.6-87.9
$50,000+ 8 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 1 13.2 1.8-55.8 7 86.8 44.2-98.2

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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, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Warren, and Washington.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

*** 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.

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