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`Smoking Cessation: Fast Facts
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`Tobacco use can lead to tobacco dependence and serious health problems. Quitting smoking greatly reduces the risk of
`developing smoking-related diseases.
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`Tobacco/nicotine dependence is a condition that often requires repeated treatments, but there are helpful treatments and
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`Smokers can and do quit smoking for good. In fact, since 2002 there have been more former smokers than current smokers.
`U.S. Adult Smoking Cessation Behaviors
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`Most adult cigarette smokers want to quit.
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`In 2015, 68.0% of adult smokers (22.7 million) said that they wanted to quit smoking.
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`More than half of adult cigarette smokers report having made a quit attempt in the past year.
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`In 2018, 55.1% of adult smokers (21.5 million) said that they had made a quit attempt in the past year.
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`Fewer than one in ten adult cigarette smokers succeed in quitting each year.
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`In 2018, 7.5% of adult smokers (2.9 million) successfully quit smoking in the past year
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`Four out of every nine adult cigarette smokers who saw a health professional during the past year did not receive advice
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`In 2015, 57.2% of adult smokers (18.8 million) who had seen a health professional in the past year reported receiving
`advice to quit.
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`Even brief advice to quit (<3 minutes) from a physician improves cessation rates and is highly cost-eective.
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`Less than one-third of adult cigarette smokers use cessation counseling or medications approved for cessation by the
`Food and Drug Administration when trying to quit smoking.
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`In 2015, 31.2% of adult smokers (7.6 million) reported using counseling or medication when trying to quit.
`In 2015, 6.8% of adult smokers (1.7 million) reported using counseling, 29.0% (7.1 million) reported using medication,
`and 4.7% (1.1 million) reported using both counseling and medication when trying to quit.
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`More than three out of ve adults who have ever smoked cigarettes have quit.
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`In 2018, 61.7% of adult smokers (55.0 million adults) who ever smoked had quit.
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`U.S. Youth Tobacco Cessation Behaviors
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`About two-thirds of youth tobacco users report wanting to quit, and nearly two-thirds report trying to quit in the past
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`In 2021, 65.3% of youth (middle and high school students) who currently used tobacco products reported that they
`were seriously thinking about quitting the use of all tobacco products.
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`In 2021, 60.2% of youth who currently used tobacco products reported that they had stopped using all tobacco
`products for one day or longer in the past year because they were trying to quit.
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`References
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`1. Department of Health and Human Services. Smoking Cessation. A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S.
`Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic
`Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Oce on Smoking and Health, 2020 [accessed 2020 May 21].
`2. Babb S, Malarcher A, Schauer G, Asman K, Jamal A. Quitting Smoking Among Adults—United States, 2000–2015.
`Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2017;65(52):1457-64 [accessed 2020 May 21].
`3. Creamer MR, Wang TW, Babb S, et al. Tobacco Product Use and Cessation Indicators Among Adults — United States,
`2018. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2019;68:1013–1019 [accessed 2020 May 21].
`4. Gentzke AS, Wang TW, Cornelius M, Park-Lee E, Ren C, Sawdey MD, Cullen KA, Loretan C, Jamal A, Homa DM. Tobacco
`Product Use and Associated Factors Among Middle and High School Students – National Youth Tobacco Survey, United
`States, 2021. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2022; 71(No. SS-5):1–29.
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