Table. State-Level Prevalence of Interest in Quitting Smokinga, Past-Year Quit Attemptsb, Recent Smoking Cessationc, and Receipt of a Medical Doctor’s Advice to Quit Smokingd, Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey, United States, 2014–2015.
| State | Interested in Quittinga, % (95% CI) |
Past-Year Quit Attemptsb, % (95% CI) |
Recent Smoking Cessationc, % (95% CI) | Receipt of Medical Doctor’s Advice to Quitd, % (95% CI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 80.0 (75.8–84.2) | 56.7 (52.2–61.3) | 8.8 (5.6–11.9) | 64.3 (59.0–69.6) |
| Alaska | 78.5 (72.2–84.8) | 62.1 (56.7–67.5) | 8.2 (4.0–12.4) | 70.2 (62.4–78.0) |
| Arizona | 75.2 (70.7–79.6) | 53.1 (47.7–58.4) | 5.4 (3.5–7.3) | 71.4 (64.3–78.5) |
| Arkansas | 75.9 (71.8–80.0) | 50.8 (46.7–55.0) | 5.8 (3.4–8.2) | 61.0 (55.3–66.6) |
| California | 78.6 (75.7–81.6) | 54.2 (50.9–57.5) | 9.8 (7.9–11.7) | 69.3 (65.4–73.3) |
| Colorado | 79.5 (75.1–83.9) | 60.7 (55.8–65.5) | 10.4 (7.1–13.6) | 71.6 (65.6–77.7) |
| Connecticut | 85.7 (81.3–90.2) | 59.7 (52.7–66.7) | 9.0 (5.8–12.2) | 74.6 (68.0–81.1) |
| Delaware | 79.3 (73.3–85.2) | 42.7 (35.9–49.5) | 6.5 (3.4–9.5) | 71.0 (64.0–78.0) |
| District of Columbia | 82.8 (77.8–87.7) | 60.6 (55.3–65.9) | 11.1 (7.1–15.0) | 76.6 (70.5–82.6) |
| Florida | 76.7 (73.8–79.6) | 50.8 (47.4–54.3) | 7.6 (5.8–9.4) | 73.0 (68.8–77.3) |
| Georgia | 80.6 (76.8–84.3) | 54.5 (50.2–58.9) | 7.0 (4.7–9.2) | 68.8 (63.6–74.1) |
| Hawaii | 72.7 (65.9–79.6) | 49.7 (43.1–56.4) | 8.4 (3.9–13.0) | 70.2 (60.7–79.6) |
| Idaho | 76.9 (71.9–82.0) | 53.1 (47.6–58.6) | 6.3 (3.3–9.4) | 59.9 (52.5–67.3) |
| Illinois | 76.1 (73.0–79.3) | 50.8 (46.9–54.7) | 9.5 (7.4–11.7) | 71.7 (67.1–76.3) |
| Indiana | 75.7 (71.5–79.9) | 54.9 (50.1–59.7) | 7.3 (4.6–10.0) | 76.4 (71.8–80.9) |
| Iowa | 75.2 (70.0–80.5) | 53.9 (49.5–58.2) | 9.8 (6.7–12.9) | 73.3 (68.5–78.2) |
| Kansas | 77.8 (73.2–82.3) | 50.7 (46.0–55.3) | 7.8 (5.3–10.2) | 66.8 (60.5–73.1) |
| Kentucky | 68.9 (64.1–73.6) | 48.1 (43.6–52.6) | 7.1 (4.6–9.6) | 73.2 (67.7–78.6) |
| Louisiana | 76.2 (72.1–80.4) | 52.8 (46.8–58.9) | 4.2 (2.6–5.7) | 68.8 (63.6–74.1) |
| Maine | 80.6 (74.6–86.5) | 55.5 (49.4–61.5) | 8.3 (4.8–11.8) | 80.2 (74.8–85.5) |
| Maryland | 79.3 (73.4–85.2) | 57.6 (49.8–65.5) | 10.7 (6.5–14.9) | 73.4 (65.8–81.0) |
| Massachusetts | 84.1 (78.7–89.5) | 57.5 (51.9–63.1) | 8.4 (5.4–11.4) | 79.6 (74.1–85.2) |
| Michigan | 80.3 (76.3–84.3) | 57.3 (53.3–61.4) | 7.8 (5.5–10.1) | 74.5 (70.8–78.3) |
| Minnesota | 81.7 (77.6–85.8) | 59.1 (54.1–64.2) | 10.5 (7.3–13.7) | 72.6 (67.7–77.4) |
| Mississippi | 75.1 (70.9–79.2) | 47.9 (42.6–53.2) | 7.3 (5.2–9.3) | 64.1 (56.9–71.3) |
| Missouri | 76.4 (71.1–81.6) | 54.1 (49.3–58.8) | 7.2 (4.4–10.0) | 69.8 (65.2–74.4) |
| Montana | 73.7 (68.3–79.2) | 49.3 (42.8–55.8) | 6.8 (3.7–10.0) | 66.7 (60.2–73.3) |
| Nebraska | 79.7 (75.4–83.9) | 56.9 (51.9–61.9) | 7.6 (3.9–11.3) | 66.5 (57.8–75.3) |
| Nevada | 75.5 (70.5–80.6) | 56.2 (50.6–61.9) | 10.1 (6.1–14.1) | 59.4 (52.6–66.2) |
| New Hampshire | 81.9 (76.8–86.9) | 55.0 (48.8–61.2) | 7.7 (4.5–10.9) | 78.6 (73.8–83.4) |
| New Jersey | 80.9 (76.1–85.7) | 52.1 (46.0–58.2) | 8.9 (6.0–11.8) | 72.5 (66.6–78.4) |
| New Mexico | 75.5 (70.5–80.4) | 55.6 (50.8–60.5) | 9.9 (5.7–14.1) | 67.2 (59.8–74.6) |
| New York | 82.7 (79.9–85.5) | 56.3 (52.5–60.0) | 6.0 (4.2–7.8) | 74.5 (70.5–78.6) |
| North Carolina | 74.4 (70.8–78.0) | 51.0 (46.8–55.2) | 6.6 (4.7–8.6) | 72.5 (68.1–77.0) |
| North Dakota | 81.7 (77.9–85.5) | 55.3 (49.6–61.0) | 8.1 (5.7–10.5) | 67.1 (60.9–73.2) |
| Ohio | 78.6 (75.3–81.9) | 51.7 (48.4–55.0) | 5.8 (4.1–7.6) | 74.2 (69.8–78.5) |
| Oklahoma | 74.0 (69.5–78.6) | 54.2 (49.8–58.6) | 8.5 (6.0–11.0) | 63.0 (57.0–68.9) |
| Oregon | 80.6 (75.2–86.0) | 57.9 (51.8–64.0) | 8.4 (5.7–11.0) | 65.8 (59.2–72.4) |
| Pennsylvania | 73.6 (70.2–77.0) | 49.5 (45.7–53.3) | 6.4 (4.5–8.3) | 75.1 (71.2–79.0) |
| Rhode Island | 78.9 (73.1–84.8) | 59.6 (53.2–65.9) | 6.4 (3.4–9.4) | 78.0 (70.7–85.3) |
| South Carolina | 78.4 (73.7–83.2) | 50.8 (46.1–55.4) | 4.7 (2.6–6.8) | 66.4 (60.5–72.2) |
| South Dakota | 81.3 (76.5–86.1) | 57.6 (52.9–62.3) | 8.7 (5.8–11.6) | 69.0 (62.5–75.5) |
| Tennessee | 72.7 (68.5–76.8) | 52.7 (48.3–57.1) | 7.5 (5.1–9.9) | 72.5 (67.7–77.2) |
| Texas | 77.6 (74.9–80.4) | 53.8 (50.9–56.7) | 7.2 (5.4–8.9) | 65.6 (61.8–69.4) |
| Utah | 72.2 (64.9–79.5) | 53.9 (44.0–63.9) | 10.7 (3.5–17.9) | 69.4 (61.2–77.6) |
| Vermont | 79.7 (75.4–84.0) | 57.3 (51.5–63.0) | 8.6 (5.4–11.8) | 78.4 (73.7–83.2) |
| Virginia | 77.4 (72.6–82.2) | 50.8 (45.8–55.8) | 6.3 (3.6–8.9) | 72.7 (67.8–77.7) |
| Washington | 75.1 (69.6–80.6) | 51.5 (45.3–57.6) | 8.0 (4.8–11.3) | 67.1 (60.2–74.1) |
| West Virginia | 70.3 (66.0–74.6) | 48.6 (43.9–53.2) | 3.9 (1.9–5.9) | 71.5 (65.5–77.5) |
| Wisconsin | 76.6 (72.5–80.6) | 54.3 (49.7–59.0) | 7.0 (4.6–9.4) | 81.7 (77.5–85.9) |
| Wyoming | 78.4 (74.4–82.3) | 52.6 (46.7–58.4) | 6.9 (4.3–9.4) | 66.3 (60.5–72.0) |
Abbreviation: CI, confidence interval.
a
Interest in quitting was defined as current smokers who reported 2–10 on a 10-point scale ranging from 1 (not at all interested) to 10 (extremely interested) among all current smokers (unweighted n = 22,163).
b
Past-year quit attempts were defined as current smokers who reported that they had stopped smoking for at least 1 day or made a serious attempt to stop smoking even for <1 day within the past year and former smokers who quit within the past year among all current smokers and former smokers who quit within the past year (unweighted n = 25,850).
c
Recent smoking cessation was defined as quitting smoking within the past year for ≥6 months among current smokers who smoked for ≥2 years and former smokers who quit during the past year (unweighted n = 25,507).
d
Receipt of medical doctor’s advice to quit smoking was reported among current smokers who visited a medical doctor within the past year and among former smokers who visited a medical doctor within the year before quitting (unweighted n = 17,247).