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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)**

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
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe) 150 18 10.9 6.0-19.0 12 7.2 3.4-14.6 2 1.1 0.3- 4.6 11 6.4 3.2-12.5 107 74.3 64.7-82.1
GENDER
Male 59 6 13.4 5.6-28.8 4 8.4 2.6-23.8 1 0.9 0.1- 5.9 3 3.7 1.1-11.5 45 73.6 57.7-85.1
Female 91 12 8.7 3.9-18.1 8 6.2 2.6-14.1 1 1.3 0.2- 8.9 8 8.8 3.7-19.3 62 75.0 62.7-84.2
RACE
White 132 16 11.6 6.2-20.5 9 6.7 2.9-14.9 2 1.2 0.3- 5.1 11 7.1 3.5-13.8 94 73.4 63.1-81.6
Other 18 2 4.4 0.9-18.5 3 11.8 2.5-41.5 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 13 83.8 55.7-95.5
AGE
18-44 69 6 10.8 4.4-24.1 6 7.9 2.7-21.1 1 1.2 0.2- 8.3 0 0.0 . - . 56 80.1 65.6-89.5
45+ 81 12 11.1 5.2-22.0 6 6.4 2.7-14.2 1 0.9 0.1- 6.4 11 15.2 7.7-27.6 51 66.5 53.4-77.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 83 9 11.4 5.3-23.0 7 8.3 3.2-20.0 1 1.2 0.2- 8.1 5 7.2 2.8-17.3 61 71.9 58.4-82.3
Some College + 67 9 10.1 3.8-24.2 5 5.6 1.8-16.3 1 1.0 0.1- 6.7 6 5.4 2.1-12.9 46 77.9 63.9-87.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 112 12 9.2 4.2-18.9 9 6.7 2.6-16.2 2 1.5 0.4- 6.2 8 6.6 2.8-14.6 81 76.0 64.5-84.7
$50,000+ 23 3 9.3 2.2-31.7 2 8.4 2.0-29.4 0 0.0 . - . 2 7.1 1.7-25.5 16 75.2 52.5-89.3

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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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