Smoking cessation support delivered via mobile phone text messaging (txt2stop): A single-blind, randomised trial

The Lancet

Volumn 378, Issue 9785, 2011, Pages 49-55

  Free, Caroline ^a   Knight, Rosemary ^a   Robertson, Steven ^a   Whittaker, Robyn ^b   Edwards, Phil ^a   Zhou, Weiwei ^a   Rodgers, Anthony ^c   Cairns, John ^a   Kenward, Michael G ^a   Roberts, Ian ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTINENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MOBILE PHONE TEXT MESSAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF REPORT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 79959962172     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60701-0     Document Type: Article

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