Publication Name	World Journal of Cardiology
Manuscript ID	34277
Country	United States

Category	Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Manuscript Type	Letter to the Editor
Article Title	Mining twitter to understand the smoking cessation barriers
Manuscript Source	Unsolicited Manuscript
All Author List	Chayakrit Krittanawong and Zhen Wang
Funding Agency and Grant Number
Corresponding Author	Chayakrit Krittanawong, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai West, 1000 10th Ave, New York, NY 10023, United States. chayakrit.krittanawong@mountsinai.org
Key Words	Smoking cessation; Stop smoking; Smoking; Twitter; Tweets
Core Tip	Twitter use is increasing globally, research on the relationship between Twitter use and smoking cessation is lacking. This study is to the best of our knowledge the first Twitter analytic study of smoking cessation. Twitter is a cost-effective tool with the potential to disseminate information on the benefits of smoking cessation and updated research to the Twitter community on a global scale. Digital health interventions through Twitter that educate the health community are still needed.
Citation	Krittanawong C, Wang Z. Mining twitter to understand the smoking cessation barriers. World J Cardiol 2017; 9(10): 794-795

Received	2017-04-10 09:06
Peer-Review Started	2017-04-12 17:50
To Make the First Decision	2017-05-08 09:25
Return for Revision	2017-05-09 17:10
Revised	2017-05-18 19:37
Second Decision	2017-06-15 06:22
Accepted by Journal Editor-in-Chief
Accepted by Company Editor-in-Chief	2017-06-20 02:07
Articles in Press	2017-06-20 02:07
Publication Fee Transferred
Edit the Manuscript by Language Editor
Typeset the Manuscript	2017-10-24 00:47

ISSN	1949-8462 (online)
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