Outcomes and adherence in Syria's first smoking cessation trial.

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Published in Am J Health Behav on December 06, 2007

Authors

Taghrid Asfar1, Mark Vander Weg, Wasim Maziak, Fadi Hammal, Thomas Eissenberg, Kenneth D Ward

Author Affiliations

1: Smoking Cessation Intervention Program, Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies, Aleppo, Syria.

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