Former daily smoking prevalence and quit ratio

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4.8. Former daily smoking prevalence and quit ratio

Table 4.8 shows the proportion of former daily smokers among all adults, and former daily smokers among ever daily smokers known as the quit ratio by selected demographic characteristics. There are 3.3 current non-smokers among all adults and 9.5 smoking quitters among ever daily smokers. There are 6.0 current non-smokers among men and 0.6 among women. However, the quit ratio in men is 9 while it is 23.2 in women. The percentage of current non-smokers and the quit ratio rises as the age increases. The percentage of former daily smokers is 0.4 in the 15 –24 years age group, 2.6 in the 25–44 years age group, 5.6 in the 45–64 years age group and 9.8 in the 65+ years age group. In addition, the quit ratio is 2 in the age group of 15 –24 years, 6.9 in those 25 –44 years, 13.4 in those 45–64 years, and 25.1 in those 65+ years. There are more current non-smokers in urban areas than that in rural areas 3.7 and 2.9, respectively. The quit ratio is also higher in urban areas than that in rural areas 11.4 and 7.9, respectively. The largest proportion of current non-smokers and quit ratio is among those in the college and university groups 5.3 and 18.2, respectively. The smallest proportion of current non-smokers and quit ratio is among those in the secondary school completed group 1.5 and 5, respectively. The proportion of current non-smokers and quit ratio tends to decrease as the education level rises to the group of secondary school completed, and then increases and peaks at the highest education level. The largest proportion of current non-smokers is in the unemployed group 6.6, followed by the self-employed 4.5, employed 3.8, home-makers 0.7 and students groups 0.1. The quit ratio for daily smoking is 28.5 among home-makers, 19.2 among the unemployed, 8.9 among the self-employed, 8 among the employed and only 0.8 among students. 45 Tobacco Use

4.9. Time since quitting smoking