Effect of brief imagery interventions on craving in college student smokers

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 177-187

  Versland, Amelia ^a   Rosenberg, Harold ^b  

^a HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Craving; Elaborated intrusion; Imagery; Smoking

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347214732     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066350701200582     Document Type: Article

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