Tobacco Use in Canada
Patterns and Trends - 2012 Edition

quitting smoking: QUIT ATTEMPTS


By Sex | By Age

Quit Attempts

In 2010, nearly half (46.6%) of smokers and recent quitters had made at least one quit attempt in the past year, and three in ten had made multiple attempts (Figure 5.13).

There was no significant change between 2009 and 2010 in the percentage of smokers and recent quitters who had attempted to quit in the past 12 months (50).

The percentage of smokers and recent quitters who had attempted to quit in the past 12 months appears to have remained stable, at around half, from 1999 to 2010 (Figure 5.14).

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