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.In 2015, 31.2% of adult smokers (7.6 million) reported using counseling or medication when trying to quit.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. Even brief advice to quit (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.
3įour out of every nine adult cigarette smokers who saw a health professional during the past year did not receive advice to quit.
3įewer than one in ten adult cigarette smokers succeed in quitting each year.
More than half of adult cigarette smokers report having made a quit attempt in the past year.
Most adult cigarette smokers want to quit.
