2021 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 547 319 56.6 51.2-61.7 228 43.4 38.3-48.8
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 61 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 3 72 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 4 64 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 5 68 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 6 70 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 7 49 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 8 103 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 9 & 10 60 *** *** *** *** *** ***
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 231 137 55.4 47.3-63.2 94 44.6 36.8-52.7
Piedmont 237 137 58.4 50.4-66.0 100 41.6 34.0-49.6
Western NC 79 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 47 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Northwest 106 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Charlotte 48 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Greensboro 54 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Southern Regional 112 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Southeast 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Wake 58 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Area L & Eastern 83 *** *** *** *** *** ***
NC MEDICAID MANAGED CARE REGIONS
Region 1 61 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 2 99 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 3 68 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 4 88 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 5 151 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 6 80 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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*Asked of current smokers.

See Technical Notes for counties in Local Health Director, State and AHEC regions.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2021 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2021 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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