BRFSS 2005 - Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes Counties: (In the last 12 months, on how many visits were you advised to quit smoking by a doctor or other health provider?*)

	Total Respond.^	1 visit	2 visits	3 visits	4 visits	None
North Carolina	2,991	638	23.5	21.4-25.7	490	15.9	14.2-17.7	259	7.6	6.5- 8.9	775	22.5	20.6-24.5	829	30.5	28.1-33.1
-Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes	64	6	10.8	4.4-24.0	12	20.4	10.7-35.2	5	5.0	1.8-13.2	21	28.2	17.2-42.8	20	35.6	19.5-55.7
GENDER
Male	22	4	15.2	4.7-39.6	6	22.6	8.0-49.6	2	3.9	0.9-15.8	6	20.0	7.4-43.7	4	38.4	12.3-73.4
Female	42	2	7.0	1.6-26.4	6	18.4	8.2-36.3	3	6.0	1.6-20.4	15	35.4	21.3-52.5	16	33.2	19.5-50.5
RACE
White	59	6	11.4	4.7-25.3	12	21.5	11.3-37.1	4	4.3	1.3-13.0	20	28.2	16.8-43.3	17	34.6	18.0-56.0
Other	5	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	1	17.7	2.2-67.2	1	29.4	4.2-79.9	3	52.9	13.7-88.8
AGE
18-44	26	2	10.7	2.6-35.2	5	17.3	6.4-38.8	2	5.1	1.0-21.9	9	23.8	10.4-45.6	8	43.1	18.4-71.8
45+	38	4	11.0	3.9-27.4	7	23.9	10.6-45.5	3	4.9	1.5-15.1	12	33.4	18.9-52.0	12	26.8	14.1-44.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	34	4	16.6	6.1-37.9	7	26.0	12.0-47.4	1	1.4	0.2- 9.5	11	28.4	15.1-47.0	11	27.6	14.2-46.8
Some College +	30	2	4.3	0.9-17.7	5	14.0	5.0-33.4	4	9.1	2.7-26.6	10	28.1	12.4-51.9	9	44.5	18.4-74.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	52	5	9.4	3.5-22.9	10	21.7	10.7-39.0	4	5.2	1.6-15.2	16	24.7	13.6-40.4	17	39.1	20.7-61.2
$50,000+	7	0	0.0	. - .	2	29.0	7.0-68.8	0	0.0	. - .	2	33.2	8.4-72.9	3	37.9	10.5-76.0

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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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	Total Respond.^	1 visit			2 visits			3 visits			4 visits			None
	Total Respond.^	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)
North Carolina	2,991	638	23.5	21.4-25.7	490	15.9	14.2-17.7	259	7.6	6.5- 8.9	775	22.5	20.6-24.5	829	30.5	28.1-33.1
-Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes	64	6	10.8	4.4-24.0	12	20.4	10.7-35.2	5	5.0	1.8-13.2	21	28.2	17.2-42.8	20	35.6	19.5-55.7
GENDER
Male	22	4	15.2	4.7-39.6	6	22.6	8.0-49.6	2	3.9	0.9-15.8	6	20.0	7.4-43.7	4	38.4	12.3-73.4
Female	42	2	7.0	1.6-26.4	6	18.4	8.2-36.3	3	6.0	1.6-20.4	15	35.4	21.3-52.5	16	33.2	19.5-50.5
RACE
White	59	6	11.4	4.7-25.3	12	21.5	11.3-37.1	4	4.3	1.3-13.0	20	28.2	16.8-43.3	17	34.6	18.0-56.0
Other	5	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	1	17.7	2.2-67.2	1	29.4	4.2-79.9	3	52.9	13.7-88.8
AGE
18-44	26	2	10.7	2.6-35.2	5	17.3	6.4-38.8	2	5.1	1.0-21.9	9	23.8	10.4-45.6	8	43.1	18.4-71.8
45+	38	4	11.0	3.9-27.4	7	23.9	10.6-45.5	3	4.9	1.5-15.1	12	33.4	18.9-52.0	12	26.8	14.1-44.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	34	4	16.6	6.1-37.9	7	26.0	12.0-47.4	1	1.4	0.2- 9.5	11	28.4	15.1-47.0	11	27.6	14.2-46.8
Some College +	30	2	4.3	0.9-17.7	5	14.0	5.0-33.4	4	9.1	2.7-26.6	10	28.1	12.4-51.9	9	44.5	18.4-74.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	52	5	9.4	3.5-22.9	10	21.7	10.7-39.0	4	5.2	1.6-15.2	16	24.7	13.6-40.4	17	39.1	20.7-61.2
$50,000+	7	0	0.0	. - .	2	29.0	7.0-68.8	0	0.0	. - .	2	33.2	8.4-72.9	3	37.9	10.5-76.0

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

Smoking Cessation

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