THE proportion of North-East smokers who tried to quit smoking through the NHS - as well as those who actually gave up - has declined for the third year running, according to new statistics.
However, figures published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre showed that once again a higher proportion of the population of the North-East set a quit date with their local NHS Stop Smoking Service than in any other English region.
But the North-East saw a fall in both the numbers trying to give up through their local NHS Stop Smoking Service and those who said they had quit for the third year running.
New statistics showed that in 2013-14 the number of North-East smokers who set a quit date through the NHS Stop Smoking Services was 2,023 per 100,000 of the population while 932 smokers per 100,000 said they had quit.
This compared with 2,511 per 100,000 North-East smokers who set a date to quit and 932 per 100,00 who quit in 2012-13.
In 2011-12 2,946 per 100,000 signed up to quit in the North-East and 1,318 per 100,000 actually quit.
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