Patterns of support in an online community for smoking cessation

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 26-35

  Ploderer, Bernd ^a   Smith, Wally ^a   Howard, Steve ^a   Pearce, Jon ^a   Borland, Ron ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behaviour change; Facebook; Online participation; Smoking cessation; Social network sites; Social support

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOUR CHANGES; FACEBOOK; ONLINE PARTICIPATION; SMOKING CESSATIONS; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GROUP THEORY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84882276380     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2482991.2482992     Document Type: Conference Paper

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