But data published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open suggests that quitting smoking is on the decline.
The team of researchers conducted the cross-sectional study using 2011 to 2020 data on close to 800 thousand individuals who had smoked in the past year from the nationally representative Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey. Representative retail scanner sales data between January 2017 and July 2021 for 1004 unique nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) universal produce codes in 31 U.S. states from NielsenIQ were also used.
The data shows that quit attempts among U.S. smokers decreased from 65.2 per cent in 2019 to 63.2 per cent in 2020. Media outlet EurekaAlert! explains: “These decreases are most prevalent amongst persons known to have experienced disproportionately negative outcomes during the Covid-19 pandemic, including middle-aged persons, those with two or more comorbidities, Black persons, and lower educated persons.”
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