Hardcore smokers: What do we know?

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1706-1712

  Darville, Audrey ^a,b   Hahn, Ellen J ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

^c Kentucky Center for Smoke free Policy   (United States)

^d Tobacco Policy Research Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Hardcore smokers; Smoking cessation; Tobacco dependence

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; EUROPE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MENTAL DISORDERS; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UNITED STATES;

AGE OF ONSET; COMORBIDITY; EUROPE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905674337     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: 18736327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.07.020     Document Type: Review

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