Do risk-minimizing beliefs about smoking inhibit quitting? Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four-Country Survey

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 219-223

  Borland, Ron ^a   Yong, Hua Hie ^a   Balmford, James ^a   Fong, Geoffrey T ^b   Zanna, Mark P ^b   Hastings, Gerard ^c  

^a CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intention to quit; Prospective prediction; Quit attempts; Risk minimizing; Self exempting beliefs; Smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTENTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SELF EFFICACY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349278371     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2009.06.015     Document Type: Article

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