Softening Among U.S. Smokers With Psychological Distress: More Quit Attempts and Lower Consumption as Smoking Drops

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 810-817

  Kulik, Margarete C ^a   Glantz, Stanton A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH EQUITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; SADNESS; SMOKING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SMOKERS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85030785838     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: 18732607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2017.08.004     Document Type: Article

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