Predictors of smoking cessation in 50-66-year-old male Taiwanese smokers: A 7-year national cohort study

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 295-300

  Tsai, Alan Chung hong ^a,b   Lin, Yun Ann ^a   Tsai, Hsin Jen ^c  

^a ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dependence of smoking; Functional impairment; Longitudinal cohort study; Predictors of smoking cessation; Smoking; Smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY CARE; ETHNIC GROUP; FACTUAL DATABASE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INJURY; LIFESTYLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPOUSE; TAIWANESE; TREND STUDY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING CESSATION; TAIWAN;

EID: 84864937542     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: 18726976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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