Photoaging mobile apps: A novel opportunity for smoking cessation?

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Brinker, Titus J ^a   Seeger, Werner ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY GIESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

App; Apps; Mobile phone apps; Photoaging; Smartphones; Tobacco cessation; Tobacco prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938578468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.4792     Document Type: Letter

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