Numerator
Number of current cigarette smokers aged 18 years and older who quit smoking for 1 day or longer during the 12 months prior to the interview and former smokers abstinent less than 365 days.
Denominator
Number of adults in the survey population aged 18 years and older who are current cigarette smokers and former smokers abstinent less than 365 days.
Methodology
Adults are classified as current smokers if they report currently smoking cigarettes "everyday" or "some days".
The methodology counts both successful (currently abstinent less than one year) and failed cessation attempts in the last 12 months.
From the 2008 National Health Interview Survey:
[NUMERATOR:]
Have you smoked at least 100 cigarettes in your entire life?
- Yes
- No
[If yes:]
Do you now smoke cigarettes everyday, some days, or not at all:]
- Everyday
- Some days
- Not at all
[if everyday or some days]
During the past 12 months, have you stopped smoking for 1 day or longer BECAUSE YOU WERE TRYING TO QUIT SMOKING?
- Yes
- No
[if not at all]
How long has it been since you quit smoking cigarettes?
________
This Indicator uses Age-Adjustment Groups:
- Disability Status: 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-64, 65+
- Education Level: 25-34, 35-44, 45-64, 65+
- Race/Ethnicity: 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-64, 65+
- Family Income Level: 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-64, 65+
- Family Type: 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-64, 65+
- Sex: 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-64, 65+
- Health Insurance Status: 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-64
- Marital Status: 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-64, 65+
- Metro Location: 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-64, 65+
- Country of Birth: 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-64, 65+
- Total: 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-64, 65+
Interventions
Campaigns, as evaluated for this review, are mass media interventions that use brief, recurring messages to inform and motivate tobacco users to quit.
These multicomponent interventions provide people who use tobacco products with cessation counseling or assistance in initiating or maintaining abstinence via telephone.
These interventions include efforts to reduce the financial barriers that may keep people from using cessation therapies such as nicotine replacement, other pharmacologic therapies, or behavioral therapies including cessation groups.
Provider reminder systems for tobacco cessation include efforts to identify clients who use tobacco products and to prompt providers to discuss and/or to advise clients about quitting.