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Smoking cessation experience and quit attempt As the proportion of the smoking population slowly shrinks, more and more current smokers expressed an increasing willingness to quit smoking. About 60% of student smokers in junior high schools and senior high and vocational schools also responded that they had experiences in smoking cessation in the last year (Fig. 3-12, Fig. 3-13). About 50-60% of junior high school students and senior high and vocational school students expressed a willingness to quit smoking (Fig. 3-14, Fig. 3-15). Fig. 3-12 100 80 60 62.0 40 20 0 Percentage of smoking cessation experience of smoking students of junior high schools Male Female 71.7 70.4 67.5 70.9 69.9 67.4 68.6 69.4 67.4 Overall 68.1 66.0 59.4 2018 Year January 2009, new regulations of Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act 65.5 68.8 67.4 69.6 63.2 63.5 68.0 72.0 69.4 67.0 63.8 2008 2009 70.5 72.4 69.0 69.5 68.6 68.5 72.1 64.0 2004 62.6 56.2 67.2 60.2 % Fig. 3-13 100 80 66.2 Percentage of smoking cessation experience of smoking students of senior 2005 2006 2007 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Note: 1. Data source:"Taiwan Global Youth Tobacco Survey" by HPA; class testing method was used to collect relevant data of teenager smoking; the subjects of analysis were junior high school students. 2. Definition of smoking cessation experience: smoker has tried quitting smoke in the past year. 3. Survey question: In the past 12 months, have you tried to quit smoking? 4. For the surveys conducted in 2004 to 2010, the method of iteration for every other year was adopted for students of "junior high school" and "grades 1 to 3 of senior high school, vocational high school and five-year junior college. and vocational high schools January 2009, new regulations of Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act Male Female Overall 68.8 66.2 60.1 2018 Year 68.0 66.6 64.0 2007 2008 68.9 67.7 70.7 70.2 69.9 70.2 68.4 2013 2014 68.4 70.1 69.0 67.1 69.5 66.0 63.2 66.7 2015 2016 2017 69.1 69.8 73.5 70.5 70.5 72.0 % 60 63.7 58.5 40 20 0 68.6 64.7 63.1 2009 2010 2011 2012 112 2005 2006 Note: 1. Data source:"Taiwan Global Youth Tobacco Survey" by HPA; class testing method was used to collect relevant data of teenager smoking; the subjects of analysis were senior and vocational high school students. 2. Definition of smoking cessation experience: smoker has tried quitting smoke in the past year. 3. Survey question: In the past 12 months, have you tried to quit smoking? 4. For the surveys conducted in 2005 to 2010, the method of iteration for every other year was adopted for students of "junior high school" and "grades 1 to 3 of senior high school, vocational high school and five-year junior college". () ()