Role of mobile phone technology in tobacco cessation interventions.

Glob Heart

Center of Excellence in Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction in South Asia, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India; Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India.

Published: July 2012

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