The female weight-control smoker: A profile
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The female weight-control smoker: a profile.
Hypothesizing the existence of a subgroup of female smokers for whom nicotine masks, and abstinence unmasks, a tendency toward hyperphagia and perhaps even subthreshold disordered eating, we compared female "weight-control smokers" (WC; n = 46) and "non-weight-control smokers" (NWC; n = 52) on smoking- and eating-related variables. We also examined the relationship between weight-control smokin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Substance Abuse
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0899-3289
DOI: 10.1016/0899-3289(93)90007-x