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| Ranking |
Evidence-Based Practice |
| Description |
Project Towards No Tobacco Use (Project TNT) is a comprehensive, classroom-based curriculum designed to prevent or reduce tobacco use in 5th through 9th grade youth. It is devised to counteract several different causes of tobacco use simultaneously, because the behavior is determined by multiple causes. Project TNT works well for a wide variety of youths who may have different risk factors influencing their tobacco use. It teaches awareness of misleading social information, develops skills that counteract social pressure to use tobacco, and provides information about the physical consequences of tobacco use, such as addiction. |
| Goal / Mission |
The goal of this program is to prevent or reduce tobacco use among children and adolescents. |
| Results / Accomplishments |
In a randomized controlled trial including 48 schools, Project Towards No Tobacco Use reduced initiation of cigarette smoking in the two years following the program by 26% when compared to a control group. Students who received programming were 30% less likely to initiate smokeless tobacco use when compared to the control group. Weekly or more frequent cigarette smoking was reduced by 60% among intervention students, and weekly or more frequent smokeless tobacco use was eliminated. Students showed increased knowledge of tobacco addiction, related diseases, and media influences. Students in the project had improved communication, refusal, and coping skills. |
| Categories |
Health / Substance Abuse
Health / Teen & Adolescent Health
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| Organization(s) |
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California |
| Source |
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide (MPG) |
| Date of Publication |
1995 |
| Date of Implementation |
1992 |
| Location |
State: California |
| Primary Contact |
Steve Sussman, Ph.D., FAAHB
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
1000 South Fremont Ave, Unit 8
Building A-4, Room 6129
Dept of Preventive Medicine
University of Southern California
Alhambra, CA 91803
(626) 457-6635
ssussma@usc.edu
http://tnd.usc.edu
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| For more details |
http://www.ojjdp.gov/mpg/mpgSearch.aspx
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| Target Audience |
Children, Teens |
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