Latest trends on smoking in England from the Smoking Toolkit Study Robert West Jamie Brown Last updated: 17th June
Prevalence of cigarette smoking 2 A-C1: Professional to clerical occupation C2-E: Manual occupation 26.3% 19.1% 13.1%
Attempts to stop smoking 3 A-C1: Professional to clerical occupation C2-E: Manual occupation
Support used in quit attempts 4 NRT OTC: Nicotine replacement therapy bought over the counter; Med Rx: Prescription medication; NHS: NHS Stop Smoking Service
E-cigarettes used in quit attempts 5
GP-triggered quit attempts 6
Motivation to quit 7 A-C1: Professional to clerical occupation C2-E: Manual occupation
Harm reduction 8 NRT: Nicotine replacement therapy
E-cigarettes – use for any purpose 9
Methods 10 Data collected during monthly household survey Each month involves a new representative sample of ~ 1800 respondents Running since November 2006 and has accumulated more than 130,000 respondents of whom more than 31,000 are ‘last-year smokers’ Fidler, et al., 'The smoking toolkit study': a national study of smoking and smoking cessation in England. BMC Public Health 11:479 For more info see