Stress, Socializing, and Other Motivations for Smoking Among the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Community in New York City

American Journal of Health Promotion

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 1178-1186

  Jannat Khah, Deanna P ^a,b   Dill, LeConté J ^a   Reynolds, Simone A ^a   Joseph, Michael A ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

LGBTQ; smoking; stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUAL FEMALE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LAW; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEW YORK; ORGANIZATION; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIALIZATION; STRESS; TRANSGENDER; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITY; SMOKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEW YORK CITY; SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITIES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TOBACCO SMOKING; TRANSGENDER PERSONS;

EID: 85037983195     PISSN: 08901171     EISSN: 21686602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0890117117694449     Document Type: Article

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