E-cigarette use is strongly associated with recent smoking cessation: an analysis of a representative population sample in Greece

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2019, Pages 835-842

  Farsalinos, Konstantinos ^a,b,c   Siakas, Georgios ^d   Poulas, Konstantinos ^b   Voudris, Vassilis ^a   Merakou, Kyriakoula ^c   Barbouni, Anastasia ^c  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Electronic cigarettes; Greece; Nicotine; Smoking; Smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VAPING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; VAPING;

EID: 85060154655     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-018-02023-x     Document Type: Article

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