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Written question asked by Keith Vaz (Labour) on Thursday, 16 February 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 27 February 2006. It was answered by Caroline Flint (Labour) on Wednesday, 8 March 2006 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Smoking

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people she estimates have (a) started and (b) stopped smoking in each quarter of each of the last five years.
Answer

The information is not available in the form requested.We are only able to provide data on the number of people who set a quit date through the NHS Stop Smoking Services and of those, how many had successfully quit (based on self report), in England.The following table provides quarterly and annual data on the monitoring of the NHS Stop Smoking Services, for the period April 2000 to September 2005.

People setting a quit date and those successfully quit, April 2000 to September 2005, England(50)
Quarter Number setting a quit date Successful quitters
April to March 2000 1 12,432 4,242
2 20,694 9,229
3 30,946 15,411
4 68,472 35,672
2000 total 132,544 64,554
April to March 2001 1 56,935 28,828
2 48,578 25,054
3 48,155 25,518
4 73,667 40,434
2001 total 227,335 119,834
April to March 2002 1 59,810 30,752
2 49,049 24,976
3 48,511 25,382
4 77,488 42,972
2002 total 234,858 124,082
April to March 2003 1 68,620 36,573
2 67,075 35,968
3 76,400 43,615
4 149,129 88,720
2003 total 361,224 204,876
April to March 2004 1 104,420 56,192
2 103,969 56,058
3 109,781 62,121
4 211,397 123,753
2004 total 529,567 298,124
April to September 2005 1 142,717 74,719
2 121,791 63,175
2005 total 264,508 137,894
Notes: 1. 2005–06 Quarter one and two figures are provisional. 2. Current data and information on NHS Stop Smoking Services is available at: http://www.ic.nhs.uk/pubsICpubfolder_view 3. Historic data and information on NHS Stop Smoking Services can be found at: http://www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/Statistics/StatisticalWorkAreas/StatisticalPublicHealth/StatisticalPublicHealthArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4032542&chk=GhPZ%2By Source: NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre, Lifestyles Statistics
(50) Aged 16 and over.
(51) A client is counted as having successfully quit smoking at the four week follow-up if he/she has not smoked at all since two weeks after the quit date. The figures presented here are based on self-report of smoking status by the client at the four week follow-up.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
443 c1636-7W;443 c1636-7W; 53879
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Tobacco Smoking
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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