Methods US Adults Used to Stop Smoking, 2021–2022

Abstract

AbstractNationally representative Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) survey data were used to identify which subpopulations of US adults had stopped smoking cigarettes for 6 months or longer in the last year and the methods they used. From 2021 through 2022, 2.9 million adults stopped smoking. Most of these were male, non-Hispanic White, aged less than 55 years, college educated, and identified as straight. The most popular method used was nicotine products (53.9%; 1.5 million adults), especially e-cigarettes in combination with other methods (40.8%; 1.2 million) and e-cigarettes alone (26.0%; 0.7 million). The data suggest that interventions to reduce smoking could focus on subpopulations that stopped smoking the least and encourage use of evidence-based methods.