Gender, social pressure, and smoking cessations: The community intervention trial for smoking cessation (COMMIT) at baseline

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 359-370

  Royce, Jacqueline M ^a,c   Corbett, Kitty ^b   Sorensen, Glorian ^c   Ockene, Judith ^c  

^a AMERICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Gender; Smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMMUNITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031016062     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00149-9     Document Type: Article

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