Optimistic Bias Among Cigarette Smokers1
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Summary
Perceived cigarette risk was not related to desire to stop smoking, if an easy way to do so were available, nor was it related to the number of previous quit attempts lasting one week or longer.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 1993-10-01
- Cited by
- 38
- References
- 14
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- https://openalex.org/W1995450787
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143601675
Keywords
Psychology, Social psychology, Cigarette smoking, Medicine, Internal medicine
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