Every figure on this site, with its source
One table of the headline figure from each topic page, linked to the publisher page the editors opened.
This page gathers the headline figure from each topic page in one place. The table is generated from the pages themselves, so it cannot drift from them: if a figure changes on a topic page, it changes here. Every row names the publisher and links to the page that was opened.
How to read the table
The figure is exactly as the source states it, in the units the source uses. The year column is the year of the data or the page, not the year of this check. A survey figure describes the people surveyed, which may be adults in one country, so read the sentence next to each figure for who it covers. The rules for finding and dating figures are on the sources and dates page.
The table
| Fig. | Figure | What it measures | Source | Year | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 6% | of smokers are able to quit in a given year, per NIDA (reported as about 6 percent) | NIDA, Is nicotine addictive? (Tobacco, Nicotine, and E-Cigarettes Research Report) | 2021 | How nicotine dependence works |
| 02 | 67.7% | of US adults who smoked said they wanted to quit smoking (2022) | CDC, Smoking Cessation: Fast Facts | 2022 | Quit attempts and success rates |
| 03 | 27.2% | of US adults with a mental health condition reported smoking cigarettes in the past month (2019) | CDC, People with Behavioral Health Conditions Experience a Health Burden From Commercial Tobacco | 2019 | Quitting and mental health |
| 04 | 5.3% | of US adults who tried or recently succeeded in quitting used both counselling and medication (2022) | CDC, Smoking Cessation: Fast Facts | 2022 | Preparing to quit |
| 05 | 14% | of people quitting were likely to succeed long term with e-cigarettes, varenicline or cytisine, versus 6% without aids | Cochrane, E-cigarettes, varenicline and cytisine are the most effective stop-smoking aids (news summary of CD015226) | 2023 | Quit methods compared |
| 06 | 28 | or more of the chemicals in smokeless tobacco have been found to cause cancer | NCI, Smokeless Tobacco and Cancer | 2026 | Smokeless and other tobacco |
| 07 | 1.55× | the chance of quitting at six months or more with any nicotine replacement (risk ratio, 133 trials) | Cochrane, Nicotine replacement therapy versus control for smoking cessation (CD000146) | 2018 | Nicotine replacement therapy |
| 08 | 8 | extra people quit per 100 using varenicline versus control (95% credible interval 6 to 10) | Cochrane Library, Pharmacological and electronic cigarette interventions for smoking cessation in adults (CD015226) | 2023 | Prescription medicines |
| 09 | 10% | of helpline callers given extra telephone counselling quit for six months or more, up from 7% without it | Cochrane, Does telephone counselling help people stop smoking? (CD002850) | 2019 | Counselling and quitlines |
| 10 | 4 | more quitters per 100 might result with nicotine e-cigarettes than with nicotine replacement therapy (high-certainty evidence) | Cochrane, Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation (Lindson et al.) | 2025 | Vaping and quitting |
| 11 | 3 days | is the window in which nicotine withdrawal usually peaks, inside a first week that is usually the worst | NCI, Handling Nicotine Withdrawal and Triggers When You Decide To Quit Tobacco | 2022 | Withdrawal timeline |
| 12 | 4.67 | kg average weight gain 12 months after quitting, in people who quit without treatment (BMJ meta-analysis) | BMJ, Weight gain in smokers after quitting cigarettes: meta-analysis (Aubin et al.) | 2012 | Quitting and weight gain |
| 13 | 8.8% | of US adults who smoked were able to successfully quit smoking in the past year (2022 data) | CDC, Smoking Cessation: Fast Facts | 2022 | Relapse and slips |
| 14 | 1 year | after quitting, the NHS says risk of heart attack will have halved compared with a smoker's | NHS Better Health, Quit smoking | 2026 | After you quit |
| 15 | 34% | lower risk of stroke for former smokers than current smokers in a 12-year follow-up study cited by WHO | WHO, Tobacco and Stroke (WHO Tobacco Knowledge Summaries) | 2016 | Smoking and stroke |
| 16 | 40% | of smokers who quit say that support from others mattered a lot in their success | Smokefree.gov, Quit Notes on How to Support Your Quitter | October 2026 | Supporting someone who is quitting |
Before you rely on a figure
A population figure says little about any one person. Whether a particular medicine, product or approach is suitable depends on health, other medicines and circumstances, so questions of that kind belong with a doctor, nurse or pharmacist. To see how the evidence for each approach compares, start with quit methods compared, and for the pattern of recovery see what happens to the body after you quit.
The short version
One row per topic, one source per row, every link going to a publisher page the editors opened.