People accessing NHS smoking cessation services, setting quit dates, and their success rates at four weeks*
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *January 2000–September 2001. | |||||||||
| †Deprivation data obtained from Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions’ Index of Multiple Deprivation. | |||||||||
| ‡Success at quitting smoking after four weeks. | |||||||||
| §Number of people who successfully quit as a percentage of the total population in each deprivation quintile. | |||||||||
| Deprivation quintiles † | Health authorities population, number (% of column total) | Accessing the services, number (% of column total) | Setting a quit date, number (% of column total) | Successfully quit‡ number | % Set quit date, of those accessing services | % Quit of those who accessed the services | % Quit of those who set a quit date | % Quit of the total population§ | |
| Men | |||||||||
| Least | 1 | 187064 (13.2) | 359 (4.0) | 182 (4.3) | 85 | 50.7 | 23.7 | 46.7 | 0.05 |
| 2 | 271748 (19.2) | 1128 (12.7) | 642 (15.3) | 364 | 56.9 | 32.3 | 56.7 | 0.13 | |
| 3 | 302448 (21.4) | 1549 (17.5) | 793 (18.9) | 446 | 51.2 | 28.8 | 56.2 | 0.15 | |
| 4 | 315213 (22.3) | 2040 (23.0) | 1058 (25.2) | 549 | 51.9 | 26.9 | 51.9 | 0.17 | |
| Most | 5 | 336800 (23.8) | 3799 (42.8) | 1527 (36.3) | 826 | 40.2 | 21.7 | 54.1 | 0.25 |
| χ2 trend | column (a) v (b) | column (a) v (c) | column (b) v (d) | column (b) v (f) | column (b) v (f) | column (a) v (e) | |||
| p Value | 217.1 | 26.5 | 41.6 | 23.8 | 9.21 | 25.2 | |||
| <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.005 | <0.001 | ||||
| Women | |||||||||
| Least | 1 | 200298 (13.3) | 480 (3.5) | 230 (3.6) | 122 | 47.9 | 25.4 | 53.0 | 0.06 |
| 2 | 292852 (19.5) | 1444 (10.4) | 834 (13.0) | 461 | 57.8 | 31.9 | 55.3 | 0.16 | |
| 3 | 327017 (21.8) | 2292 (16.5) | 1128 (17.6) | 617 | 49.2 | 26.9 | 54.7 | 0.19 | |
| 4 | 333212 (22.2) | 3101 (22.3) | 1668 (26.0) | 805 | 53.8 | 25.9 | 48.3 | 0.24 | |
| Most | 5 | 349102 (23.2) | 6561 (47.3) | 2546 (39.7) | 1285 | 38.8 | 19.6 | 50.5 | 0.37 |
| χ2 trend | column (a) v (b) | column (a) v (c) | column (b) v (d) | column (b) v (f) | column (b) v (f) | column (a) v (e) | |||
| p Value | 696.0 | 55.0 | 126.0 | 30.9 | 9.16 | 35.9 | |||
| <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.005 | <0.001 | ||||