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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender 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
-Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender 87 15 16.8 9.8-27.2 10 10.6 5.3-20.3 3 3.9 1.2-11.7 7 3.7 1.7- 8.1 52 65.0 52.8-75.5
GENDER
Male 29 4 12.3 4.3-30.2 2 6.9 1.3-29.5 2 5.4 1.3-20.5 1 1.2 0.2- 8.1 20 74.2 53.5-87.8
Female 58 11 20.5 11.1-34.6 8 13.8 6.8-26.0 1 2.6 0.4-16.2 6 5.8 2.4-13.3 32 57.3 43.1-70.5
RACE
White 76 12 15.4 8.4-26.5 10 12.7 6.3-24.0 2 3.5 0.9-13.1 7 4.4 2.0- 9.7 45 63.9 50.6-75.4
Other 11 3 23.7 6.7-57.4 0 0.0 . - . 1 5.7 0.8-32.7 0 0.0 . - . 7 70.5 38.2-90.3
AGE
18-44 38 6 11.4 4.8-24.6 5 9.6 3.8-22.5 3 7.1 2.2-20.6 2 2.8 0.6-11.2 22 69.1 52.0-82.2
45+ 49 9 23.3 11.9-40.4 5 11.9 4.2-29.5 0 0.0 . - . 5 4.8 1.9-11.6 30 60.0 43.4-74.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 45 12 24.4 13.5-39.9 4 8.8 2.5-26.4 2 5.0 1.2-18.6 5 5.9 2.3-14.5 22 55.9 39.1-71.4
Some College + 42 3 9.3 2.8-27.0 6 12.4 5.3-26.3 1 2.8 0.4-17.5 2 1.6 0.4- 6.3 30 73.9 56.5-86.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 62 11 16.6 9.0-28.6 5 7.9 3.2-18.4 3 6.0 1.9-17.4 6 4.8 2.0-11.2 37 64.6 50.8-76.4
$50,000+ 17 1 2.5 0.3-16.9 4 18.8 5.6-47.8 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 12 78.6 50.4-93.0

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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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