Health knowledge about smoking, role of doctors, and self-perceived health: a cross-sectional study on smokers’ intentions to quit

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Health knowledge about smoking, role of doctors, and self-perceived health: a cross-sectional study on smokers’ intentions to quit

Limited empirical work has been done to compare the effects that health knowledge and advice from doctors have on smokers’ intentions to quit. This paper examines the association of smokers’ intentions to quit with health knowledge, advice from doctors, and self-perceived health. A sample of 2509 sm...

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Main Authors:	He, Tianfeng, Liu, Lefan, Huang, Jing, Li, Guoxing, Guo, Xinbiao
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2021
Subjects:	health knowledge; smoking caused disease; secondhand smoke; cessation; intention to quit; low/middle income country
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/65090/

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