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

Smoking Cessation

In the last 12 months, how many times have you seen a doctor, nurse
or other health professional to get any kind of care for yourself?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Once Twice Three times 4 or more times Never
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,771 687 19.2 17.4-21.0 582 15.0 13.5-16.6 380 8.5 7.5- 9.7 1,323 31.5 29.4-33.6 799 25.8 23.8-28.0
-Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes 85 10 8.6 4.0-17.5 12 13.7 7.0-25.1 8 13.9 4.2-37.2 36 37.2 25.5-50.6 19 26.6 15.5-41.8
GENDER
Male 35 1 3.2 0.4-20.2 8 19.9 8.7-39.4 4 20.0 4.6-56.2 10 19.2 9.2-35.9 12 37.7 19.0-60.9
Female 50 9 15.2 7.0-29.9 4 6.1 2.0-17.1 4 6.5 2.1-18.6 26 59.2 43.5-73.3 7 13.0 5.6-27.3
RACE
White 79 9 9.0 4.1-18.7 10 13.1 6.3-25.2 8 15.2 4.7-39.8 34 38.6 26.3-52.7 18 24.0 13.7-38.5
Other 6 1 4.2 0.4-30.6 2 20.1 3.0-67.0 0 0.0 . - . 2 21.6 3.6-67.3 1 54.1 11.7-91.3
AGE
18-44 37 2 4.8 1.1-19.2 5 9.4 3.3-24.0 3 18.0 4.0-53.6 16 32.2 17.7-51.2 11 35.6 18.3-57.8
45+ 48 8 14.3 6.2-29.5 7 20.2 8.9-39.7 5 7.8 2.9-19.3 20 44.7 29.6-60.9 8 12.9 6.2-24.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 46 6 10.1 3.8-24.3 7 16.7 7.1-34.4 3 4.1 1.2-13.1 18 35.9 21.7-53.1 12 33.3 17.5-53.9
Some College + 39 4 6.7 2.1-19.4 5 9.7 3.5-23.9 5 27.1 7.3-63.6 18 38.8 20.8-60.6 7 17.7 7.3-37.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 69 10 10.3 4.8-21.0 10 12.8 6.0-25.3 8 16.7 5.1-42.6 25 32.3 20.4-47.1 16 27.8 15.3-45.2
$50,000+ 11 0 0.0 . - . 1 8.4 1.1-42.3 0 0.0 . - . 7 58.7 26.4-85.0 3 32.9 9.7-69.1

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*Asked of respondents who stopped smoking within the past year or now smoke every day or some days.

^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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