Project Towards No Tobacco Use
An 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.
Impact
One study found that Project the project reduced initiation of cigarette smoking in the two years following the program by 26% when compared to a control group. Students showed increased knowledge of tobacco addiction, related diseases, and media influences and had improved communication, refusal, and coping skills.
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.
About this Promising Practice
Organization(s)
University of Southern California, Institute for Prevention Research
Primary Contact
Dr. Steve Sussman
USC Institute for Prevention Research
Soto Street Building, 3rd Floor
2001 N. Soto Street
Los Angeles, CA 90032
(800)400-8461
ssussma@usc.edu
http://tnt.usc.edu/index.php
USC Institute for Prevention Research
Soto Street Building, 3rd Floor
2001 N. Soto Street
Los Angeles, CA 90032
(800)400-8461
ssussma@usc.edu
http://tnt.usc.edu/index.php
Topics
Health / Alcohol & Drug Use
Health / Adolescent Health
Health / Adolescent Health
Organization(s)
University of Southern California, Institute for Prevention Research
Source
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide (MPG)
Date of publication
1995
Date of implementation
1992
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Target Audience
Children, Teens