Adolescent smoking: Are infrequent and occasional smokers ready to quit?

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1127-1137

  Turner, Lindsey R ^a   Veldhuis, Cindy B ^a   Mermelstein, Robin ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology ^*

^c Center for Health Behavior Research

Author keywords

Adolescents; Cessation; Motivation; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ADOLESCENT SMOKING; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 23044484234     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/JA-200042268     Document Type: Article

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