Lifestyles and preventive practices. Absolute figures 
Time since ex-smokers stopped smoking, by sex and social class of the main breadwinner. Population aged 16 years old and over that does not currently smoke, but has smoked before
Units: thousands of persons

	Total	Less than 1 year	1 to 4 years	5 to 9 years	10 to 19 years	20 years or more	No data recorded	
BOTH SEXES	
    Total	7,684.2	615.2	2,027.0	1,454.8	1,864.1	1,629.6	93.6	
    I: Executives of Public Administrations and of companies with 10 or more employees, and professions associated with university degrees	948.3	64.1	210.4	156.4	303.2	210.4	3.8	
    II: Executives of companies with fewer than 10 employees, and professions associated  with intermediate degrees. Advanced technicians. Artists and sportspersons	847.0	86.4	224.1	171.7	206.4	154.0	4.5	
    III: Administrative type employees and Administrative and financial support professionals. Personal services and Security workers. Freelance workers. Supervisors of manual workers	1,771.9	124.2	503.1	330.6	373.2	424.4	16.4	
    IVa: Skilled manual workers	2,214.2	196.1	612.8	403.4	519.4	451.6	30.9	
    IVb: Semi-skilled manual workers	888.5	75.9	227.3	201.5	200.3	168.0	15.5	
    V: Unskilled workers	867.0	61.9	217.3	153.9	231.0	186.5	16.5	
    No data recorded	147.4	6.7	32.0	37.2	30.7	34.8	6.0	
MALES	
    Total	5,166.7	323.7	1,190.6	1,033.1	1,277.2	1,277.0	65.1	
    I: Executives of Public Administrations and of companies with 10 or more employees, and professions associated with university degrees	567.6	22.3	115.5	96.8	190.5	138.7	3.8	
    II: Executives of companies with fewer than 10 employees, and professions associated  with intermediate degrees. Advanced technicians. Artists and sportspersons	509.4	46.4	124.2	104.4	130.1	101.5	2.7	
    III: Administrative type employees and Administrative and financial support professionals. Personal services and Security workers. Freelance workers. Supervisors of manual workers	1,170.1	63.0	299.4	236.7	231.8	331.8	7.3	
    IVa: Skilled manual workers	1,588.3	114.9	361.7	323.7	390.0	376.3	21.7	
    IVb: Semi-skilled manual workers	590.4	37.1	124.2	128.3	147.4	137.9	15.5	
    V: Unskilled workers	642.0	37.1	148.6	113.7	163.1	168.5	11.0	
    No data recorded	99.0	3.0	17.0	29.6	24.1	22.3	3.1	
FEMALES	
    Total	2,517.5	291.5	836.4	421.6	586.9	352.6	28.5	
    I: Executives of Public Administrations and of companies with 10 or more employees, and professions associated with university degrees	380.6	41.8	94.9	59.6	112.7	71.7	0.0	
    II: Executives of companies with fewer than 10 employees, and professions associated  with intermediate degrees. Advanced technicians. Artists and sportspersons	337.7	39.9	99.9	67.3	76.2	52.5	1.8	
    III: Administrative type employees and Administrative and financial support professionals. Personal services and Security workers. Freelance workers. Supervisors of manual workers	601.8	61.1	203.7	93.9	141.4	92.5	9.2	
    IVa: Skilled manual workers	625.9	81.2	251.1	79.7	129.3	75.3	9.2	
    IVb: Semi-skilled manual workers	298.1	38.8	103.1	73.2	52.9	30.1	0.0	
    V: Unskilled workers	225.0	24.8	68.7	40.2	67.9	17.9	5.5	
    No data recorded	48.4	3.7	15.0	7.7	6.6	12.5	2.9	
Notes:
The symbol '.' shall be deemed as data which cannot be provided since it may be affected by sampling errors.
 The symbol '..' shall be deemed as data which is not collected.
 The symbol '...' shall be deemed as an 'error of division by zero'.
Source: Ministry of Health and Consumption and INE