Figure 1 compares Hackney’s estimated number of smokers with known service use. It shows that more people are recorded by their GPs as current smokers than are suggested through survey data; this is typical for most areas and may be due to GP records not being updated when smokers quit. 3 Seven percent of the estimated number of smokers used SSS in 2015/16; just under half of these successfully quit.4

Source: For local data see Smoking – Hackney – Local data; for local estimates see Smoking – Hackney – Estimates.
References
- Public Health England, “Local Tobacco Control Profiles,” [Online]. Available: http://www.tobaccoprofiles.info/. [Accessed 26 August 2016].
- Based on four week smoking status.
- Public Health England, “Local Tobacco Control Profiles,” [Online]. Available: http://www.tobaccoprofiles.info/. [Accessed 26 August 2016].
- Based on four week smoking status.