Delivering Smoking Cessation Support by Mobile Phone Text Message: What Information do Smokers Want? A Focus Group Study

Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-23

  Jamison, James ^a,c   Naughton, Felix ^a   Sutton, Stephen ^a   Gilbert, Hazel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84874822398     PISSN: 10712089     EISSN: 17519861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jabr.12004     Document Type: Article

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