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Recent Smoking Cessation

The NSDUH Report - -Recent Smoking Cessation

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Among people who smoked cigarettes 13 to 24 months prior to the survey interview (i.e., year-before-last smokers), 4.1 percent (2.2 million persons) had successfully stopped smoking by the next year (i.e., did not smoke in the year prior to the survey interview). The past year smoking cessation rate was higher among females than males, higher among adults aged 26 to 34 than among persons in other age groups, and increased with increasing levels of education and income. Past year smoking cessation rates varied by State, ranging from a high of 6.8 percent in Vermont to a low of 1.8 percent in South Carolina.

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This Short , The NSDUH Report - -Recent Smoking Cessation, is based on SAMHSA's  National Survey on Drug Use and Health, conducted by SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older.   SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health also provides estimates for drug use by State.

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