Northwest Ohio Strategic Alliance for Tobacco Control

Youth Smokers: Post-Tests Evaluate Cessation Initiative
The results for Year 3 post-testing of youth cessation initiatives involved two particular groups. Students 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.

Youth Smoker Findings
Way, Way Up – TAP students who quit smoking in the previous 6 months.

Quadrupled – number of TAP students who did not smoke in the past month.

Up – TEG students who want to stop smoking.

Up – number of times students have tried to quit smoking over the last 12 months.

5 times more students said they’d “definitely not” smoke in the next 3 months.

Doubled – 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 – recognition that people can get addicted to tobacco just like drugs.

Program parameters: There were 554 in the TEG group, 214 in the TAP group, 43 in the control group.

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