Lifestyles and preventive practices. Absolute figures 
Time since ex-smokers stopped smoking, by sex and Autonomous Community. 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	
    Andalucía	1,148.2	93.5	294.9	228.1	286.0	232.7	13.0	
    Aragón	229.3	16.7	54.1	45.7	62.0	49.8	0.9	
    Asturias (Principado de)	184.6	11.8	42.9	40.4	49.3	39.4	0.8	
    Balears (Illes)	152.1	16.3	38.4	27.0	34.6	35.8	0.0	
    Canarias	288.8	34.7	63.2	50.7	63.4	76.9	0.0	
    Cantabria	93.1	5.1	23.0	19.5	25.1	20.0	0.4	
    Castilla y León	425.9	18.3	129.8	54.3	116.0	106.2	1.3	
    Castilla-La Mancha	325.8	20.4	99.2	48.6	87.6	64.7	5.4	
    Cataluña	1,315.2	109.2	371.0	248.7	282.1	259.8	44.4	
    Comunitat Valenciana	876.3	78.7	215.1	208.9	196.1	176.2	1.4	
    Extremadura	218.0	10.0	65.7	51.8	41.5	48.3	0.7	
    Galicia	462.1	34.9	121.6	82.8	100.8	118.0	4.1	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	1,141.5	83.3	284.8	196.9	337.1	221.0	18.4	
    Murcia (Región de)	221.9	27.2	61.6	46.0	44.6	41.7	0.9	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	119.8	9.2	30.1	22.7	34.1	22.8	0.9	
    País Vasco	418.7	37.9	115.0	68.7	90.4	105.9	0.8	
    Rioja (La)	47.6	5.9	12.4	11.8	9.3	8.1	0.0	
    Ceuta and Melilla	15.3	2.4	4.1	2.1	4.0	2.4	0.2	
MALES	
    Total	5,166.7	323.7	1,190.6	1,033.1	1,277.2	1,277.0	65.1	
    Andalucía	815.0	37.5	195.7	180.5	210.6	181.1	9.7	
    Aragón	159.3	9.8	33.1	33.3	44.2	38.0	0.9	
    Asturias (Principado de)	121.6	4.8	23.3	33.1	30.5	29.9	0.0	
    Balears (Illes)	93.3	10.8	18.4	16.0	21.3	27.0	0.0	
    Canarias	174.9	15.4	30.5	27.9	39.9	61.2	0.0	
    Cantabria	63.9	3.1	14.6	14.3	15.9	15.6	0.4	
    Castilla y León	311.1	10.6	83.2	35.3	87.4	94.7	0.0	
    Castilla-La Mancha	226.8	5.9	63.0	33.9	64.4	56.1	3.6	
    Cataluña	896.6	64.1	205.1	188.3	208.4	199.1	31.6	
    Comunitat Valenciana	578.1	46.1	121.5	149.7	125.3	135.6	0.0	
    Extremadura	158.9	6.7	37.9	40.1	30.6	43.0	0.7	
    Galicia	332.1	20.0	77.6	56.8	72.6	101.7	3.5	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	697.6	40.0	156.6	129.3	203.5	154.1	14.1	
    Murcia (Región de)	152.1	17.2	42.1	27.6	29.8	35.3	0.0	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	74.6	4.1	16.1	14.6	23.3	15.9	0.5	
    País Vasco	266.2	22.9	61.4	43.1	58.7	80.2	0.0	
    Rioja (La)	32.6	3.0	7.8	7.6	7.5	6.6	0.0	
    Ceuta and Melilla	11.8	1.8	2.9	1.7	3.3	2.1	0.0	
FEMALES	
    Total	2,517.5	291.5	836.4	421.6	586.9	352.6	28.5	
    Andalucía	333.2	56.0	99.2	47.6	75.4	51.7	3.3	
    Aragón	70.0	6.9	21.0	12.4	17.9	11.8	0.0	
    Asturias (Principado de)	63.0	7.0	19.6	7.3	18.9	9.5	0.8	
    Balears (Illes)	58.7	5.5	20.1	11.0	13.3	8.8	0.0	
    Canarias	113.9	19.3	32.7	22.8	23.5	15.7	0.0	
    Cantabria	29.2	2.0	8.4	5.1	9.2	4.4	0.0	
    Castilla y León	114.8	7.7	46.6	19.0	28.6	11.5	1.3	
    Castilla-La Mancha	99.0	14.5	36.2	14.7	23.1	8.6	1.8	
    Cataluña	418.6	45.1	166.0	60.4	73.7	60.7	12.8	
    Comunitat Valenciana	298.2	32.6	93.6	59.2	70.8	40.6	1.4	
    Extremadura	59.1	3.3	27.9	11.7	10.9	5.3	0.0	
    Galicia	130.0	14.9	44.0	26.1	28.2	16.3	0.6	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	443.9	43.3	128.2	67.7	133.6	66.9	4.2	
    Murcia (Región de)	69.9	10.0	19.5	18.3	14.8	6.3	0.9	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	45.3	5.1	14.0	8.0	10.8	6.9	0.4	
    País Vasco	152.5	15.0	53.7	25.6	31.7	25.7	0.8	
    Rioja (La)	15.0	2.9	4.6	4.2	1.8	1.5	0.0	
    Ceuta and Melilla	3.4	0.6	1.2	0.4	0.7	0.4	0.2	
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