How Smart are Smartphone Apps for Smoking Cessation? A Content Analysis

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1025-1031

  Hoeppner, Bettina B ^a   Hoeppner, Susanne S ^a   Seaboyer, Lourah ^a,b   Schick, Melissa R ^a   Wu, Gwyneth W Y ^a,c   Bergman, Brandon G ^a   Kelly, John F ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMARTPHONE; SMOKING CESSATION; SUPPORT GROUP; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SMOKING;

HUMANS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; SMARTPHONE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 84964949986     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntv117     Document Type: Article

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