Smokers who try E-cigarettes to quit smoking: Findings from a multiethnic study in Hawaii

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Pokhrel, Pallav ^a   Fagan, Pebbles ^a   Little, Melissa A ^a   Kawamoto, Crissy T ^a   Herzog, Thaddeus A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE GUM;

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; RISK; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TOBACCO; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HAWAII; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; ODDS RATIO; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; TOBACCO USE CESSATION PRODUCTS;

EID: 84881529877     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301453     Document Type: Article

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