Is it the nicotine? Australian smokers’ accounts of nicotine addiction

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 293-301

  Wigginton, Britta ^a   Morphett, Kylie ^a   Gartner, Coral ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

lay perceptions; Nicotine addiction; qualitative; smoking; smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007505013     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066359.2016.1269892     Document Type: Article

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