27-5


27-5.		Increase smoking cessation attempts by adult smokers.

Target: 75 percent.

Baseline: 41 percent of adult smokers aged 18 years and older stopped smoking for 1 day or longer because they were trying to quit in 1998 (age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).

Target setting method: Better than the best.

Data source: National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), CDC, NCHS.

Adults Aged 18 Years and Older, 1998 (unless noted)	Stopped Smoking 1 Day or Longer Because They Were Trying To Quit
Adults Aged 18 Years and Older, 1998 (unless noted)	Percent
TOTAL	41
Race and ethnicity
American Indian or Alaska Native	42
Asian or Pacific Islander	44
Asian	38
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander	DSU
Black or African American	45
White	40

Hispanic or Latino	38
Not Hispanic or Latino	41
Black or African American	45
White	40
Gender
Female	42
Male	39
Family income level
Poor	40
Near poor	42
Middle/high income	43
Education level (aged 25 years and older)
Less than high school	38
Under 9 years	36
9 to 11 years	39
High school graduate	36
At least some college	42
13 to 15 years	42
16 years or more	43
Disability status
Persons with disabilities	44 (1997)
Persons without disabilities	42 (1997)
Sexual orientation	DNC
Select populations
Age groups (not age adjusted)
18 to 24 years	52
25 to 44 years	42
45 to 64 years	37
65 years and older	35

DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.
Note: Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.