Project EX: Outcomes of a teen smoking cessation program
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Creation of the EX program
The starting point for Project EX program development was the cessation program from Project Towards No Tobacco Use (TNT; see Sussman, Dent, Burton, et al., 1995). That cessation project tested the efficacy of two tobacco use cessation clinic programs within a traditional high school setting, using a three-group experimental design. The two curricula were similar in format, but one focused on the chemical dependency aspects of tobacco use while the other focused on psychosocial dependence
Recruitment and baseline comparability
Based on the school-wide tobacco prevalence survey, a total of 772 (54%) of the students at the 12 intervention target schools reported smoking cigarettes within the last 30 days, and the school level prevalence of smoking did not vary across the program conditions. A total of 259 (34%) of the target population enrolled in the clinics, 139 at the clinic-only schools, and 120 in the clinic plus SAC schools. All enrollees smoked cigarettes; 46% smoked only cigarettes, 36% smoked both cigarettes
Discussion
Consistent with other tobacco use prevalence studies in continuation high school populations, we found a substantial number of tobacco users in our school-wide survey (Sussman, Dent, Severson, et al., 1998). Through a minimal effort recruitment campaign, we were able to enroll 34% of these tobacco users into the clinics, indicating that if formal in-school cessation clinics are offered to students, a substantial percentage will attend. The most effective strategies for recruitment were the
Acknowledgements
This research was supported by a grant from the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (6RT-0182).
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