2013 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Smoking Cessation-MALES

The last time you tried to quit smoking, did you use any of the following medications:

a nicotine patch, nicotine gum, nicotine lozenges, nicotine nasal spray, a nicotine inhaler, or
pills such as Wellbutrin, Zyban, buproprion, Chantix, or varenicline to help you quit?*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 799 313 35.6 31.4-40.1 486 64.4 59.9-68.6
-MALES 335 127 34.4 28.4-41.0 208 65.6 59.0-71.6
RACE
White 208 89 39.3 31.5-47.7 119 60.7 52.3-68.5
African American 85 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other Minorities 41 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-34 77 *** *** *** 60 77.7 66.0-86.2
35-44 49 *** *** *** *** *** ***
45-54 86 *** *** *** *** *** ***
55-64 68 *** *** *** *** *** ***
65-74 42 *** *** *** *** *** ***
75+ 11 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 70 *** *** *** *** *** ***
H.S. or G.E.D. 121 39 27.7 19.2-38.1 82 72.3 61.9-80.8
Some Post-H.S. 88 *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 54 *** *** *** *** *** ***
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 62 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$15,000- 24,999 79 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$25,000- 34,999 33 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$35,000- 49,999 40 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000- 74,999 20 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$75,000+ 36 *** *** *** *** *** ***
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 137 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 195 63 27.3 20.5-35.3 132 72.7 64.7-79.5
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 80 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Veteran 255 86 29.7 23.3-37.0 169 70.3 63.0-76.7
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 180 70 35.2 27.1-44.3 110 64.8 55.7-72.9
No 155 57 33.5 25.0-43.4 98 66.5 56.6-75.0

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*Asked of smokers who stopped smoking one day or longer because they were trying to quit smoking.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2013 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2013 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = 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.

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