Lifestyles and preventive practices. Absolute figures 
Time since ex-smokers stopped smoking, by sex and employment situation. 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	
    Employed	4,096.4	385.3	1,305.5	887.8	922.4	548.1	47.2	
    Unemployed	461.1	48.9	193.6	87.0	104.9	22.0	4.7	
    Student	116.3	43.7	60.0	3.9	3.6	4.6	0.5	
    Retired person, pensioner	2,331.7	78.8	300.0	365.4	631.2	922.4	33.9	
    Mainly dedicated to household chores	573.8	53.1	142.2	93.8	174.2	108.1	2.6	
    Other situations	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	
    No data recorded	39.0	0.6	10.5	12.8	2.5	10.5	2.0	
MALES	
    Total	5,166.7	323.7	1,190.6	1,033.1	1,277.2	1,277.0	65.1	
    Employed	2,679.7	212.9	786.6	629.8	621.6	395.1	33.7	
    Unemployed	220.8	19.9	89.2	50.8	51.4	8.8	0.7	
    Student	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	
    Retired person, pensioner	2,141.1	72.9	268.6	337.5	583.2	851.6	27.5	
    Mainly dedicated to household chores	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	
    Other situations	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	
    No data recorded	27.8	0.6	6.4	7.8	2.5	10.5	0.0	
FEMALES	
    Total	2,517.5	291.5	836.4	421.6	586.9	352.6	28.5	
    Employed	1,416.7	172.4	518.9	258.1	300.8	153.0	13.6	
    Unemployed	240.3	29.0	104.5	36.1	53.5	13.2	4.0	
    Student	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	
    Retired person, pensioner	190.6	5.9	31.5	27.9	48.1	70.8	6.4	
    Mainly dedicated to household chores	566.9	53.1	142.2	88.4	172.5	108.1	2.6	
    Other situations	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	
    No data recorded	11.2	0.0	4.0	5.1	0.0	0.0	2.0	
Notes:

.Data protected by statistical secrecy

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