Reasons for wanting to quit: Ethnic differences among cessation-seeking adolescent smokers

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 739-743

  Luther, Emily J ^a   Bagot, Kara S ^a   Franken, Frederick H ^a   Moolchan, Eric T ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; African American; Ethnic differences; Reasons for quit attempts; Smoking cessation; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; SMOKING CESSATION; TELEPHONE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; MOTIVATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BALTIMORE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 33749344241     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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