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High school: results show we’re helping teens quit
Pre- and post-testing of youth cessation initiatives clearly showed our programs are making a difference. The participating high school students were classified two ways. Kids in the Tobacco Education Group (TEG) were there because they were caught smoking. Students in the Tobacco Awareness Program (TAP) joined voluntarily because they were trying to quit.

High School Findings
- 4 times more TAP students said they would "definitely not" smoke in the next 3 months.
- Tripled: number of TAP students who did not smoke in the past month.
- Doubled: TEG students who said they’d "definitely not" smoke in the next 3 months.
- Doubled: TEG students who said they’d "definitely not" be smoking 5 years from now.
- Up: students who said "definitely yes," they risk harm even smoking only 1-5 cigarettes a day.
- Up: students who said it’s "definitely not" safe to smoke for a year or two, even if they’re going to quit after that.
- Up: number of times students have tried to quit smoking over the last 12 months.
- Down: average number of cigarettes smoked per day in the last month.

Program parameters: Of the 531 who started the intervention program, 58% finished it; 42% of participants dropped out. There were 254 in the TEG group, 105 in the TAP group. The control group began with 179 students and ended with 148. The test groups were 75% white. Among all students, half smoked Marlboros.

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