Making Health Habitual: the Psychology of 'habit-formation' and General Practice

Overview

Journal Br J Gen Pract

Specialty Public Health

Date 2012 Dec 6

PMID 23211256

Citations 171

Authors

Benjamin Gardner

Phillippa Lally

Jane Wardle

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