2017 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Smoking Cessation

In the past 12 months, did any doctor, dentist, nurse, or other health professional advise you to quit
smoking cigarettes or using any other tobacco products?*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 616 378 57.5 52.2-62.7 238 42.5 37.3-47.8
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 133 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 3 & 5 115 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 4 59 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 6 & 7 110 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 8 95 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 9 & 10 104 *** *** *** *** *** ***
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 272 165 54.9 46.4-63.2 107 45.1 36.8-53.6
Piedmont 193 120 60.5 52.1-68.4 73 39.5 31.6-47.9
Western NC 151 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 121 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Northwest 95 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Charlotte 42 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Greensboro 38 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Southern Regional 97 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Southeast 35 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Wake 52 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Area L & Eastern 136 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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*Asked of current smokers.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2017 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2017 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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