The role of desire, duty and intention in predicting attempts to quit smoking

Addiction

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 844-851

  Smit, Eline S ^a   Fidler, Jennifer A ^b,c   West, Robert ^b,c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Desire; Duty; Intention; Motivation; Smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTENTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL CLASS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952291211     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03317.x     Document Type: Article

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