Current status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 14 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of people have indicated in the Scottish Health Survey in each year since 1995 that they would like to give up smoking, and what information it has regarding how many succeeded in doing so.
The following table shows information from the Scottish Health Survey on the proportion of adult smokers indicating that they would like to give up smoking in each year since 2003. This information is not available from the two earlier Scottish Health Surveys in 1995 and 1998.
Adult smokers: proportion wanting to give up
|
|
2003 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
|
Yes |
70 |
68 |
70 |
69 |
72 |
73 |
70 |
67 |
70 |
|
No |
30 |
32 |
30 |
31 |
28 |
27 |
30 |
33 |
30 |
Source: Scottish Health Survey
Information on successful quit attempts is only collected for those using smoking cessation services in Scotland as recorded on the National Smoking Cessation Database. This is only a subset of the overall smoking population attempting to quit smoking and therefore not representative. Information on this subset can be viewed in the NHS Smoking Cessation Service Statistics (Scotland) 1st April 2014 to 31st March 2015 publication.