Are the stages of change for smokers qualitatively distinct? An analysis using an adolescent sample

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 120-125

  Herzog, Thaddeus A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Smoking cessation; Stages of change; Transtheoretical model

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; MALE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; STAGES OF CHANGE QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 33947629298     PISSN: 0893164X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0893-164X.21.1.120     Document Type: Article

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