Smokers who fail to identify smoking cessation as a health priority

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 389-395

  Ratner, Pamela A ^a   Johnson, Joy L ^b   Bottorff, Joan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATISFACTION; SMOKING CESSATION; TELEPHONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBERTA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECISION MAKING; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MOTIVATION; ODDS RATIO; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SELF CONCEPT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0029144016     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1995.1063     Document Type: Article

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