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Tobacco Facilitator
Workshops
The American Lung
Association of Ohio offers a
variety of smoking cessation
and prevention programs.
Facilitator training
workshops are available to
prepare interested people to
implement these innovative
programs.
Freedom From Smoking
(FFS), a nationally
recognized adult smoking
cessation program that
provides a group setting
designed to help people
learn the skills they need
to successfully stop
smoking. This six week
program uses a positive
behavior change approach
guided by trained experts.
Special attention is given
to developing a quitting
strategy, dealing with
recovery symptoms,
controlling weight, managing
stress through relaxation,
assertiveness techniques,
and staying off cigarettes.
Not On Tobacco (N-O-T)
Teen Smoking Cessation
Program is the American
Lung Association's
school-based voluntary
program designed to help
high school students stop
smoking, reduce the number
of cigarettes smoked,
increase healthy lifestyle
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N-O-T includes a ten
session curriculum
and four booster
sessions conducted
by trained
facilitators. The
program provides
active participation
through small group
discussions,
hands-on activities,
and journal writing.
This training
workshop also
includes the
Alternative to
Suspension (ATS)
program. The
Alternative to
Suspension
curriculum is
offered as an option
to students who face
suspension for
violating a school's
tobacco use policy
or face penalty for
breaking Ohio state
tobacco law. The
program consists of
four sessions
approximately 50
minutes each. The
sessions address
student tobacco use,
the affects of using
tobacco, addiction,
healthy alternatives
to smoking, and how
to keep from smoking
at school.
Teens Against
Tobacco Use (TATU)
is a peer teaching
tobacco prevention
program. The
American Lung
Association trains
adults to work with
high school students
on the health
hazards of tobacco
use. These adults
then recruit and
train high school
students to serve as
role models and
teach children in
elementary schools
about the health
hazards of tobacco
use. The high school
students then go
back and present
information of the
dangers of tobacco
use to elementary
children.
Word of Mouth:
Youth Tobacco
Prevention
is an
innovative,
comprehensive
tobacco prevention
program offered to
students in fourth
through eighth
grades. The goal of
this program is to
reduce youth tobacco
use, enhance
knowledge, and
improve attitudes
towards nonsmokers.
Students take part
in four lessons
throughout the
school year. The
lessons empower the
students by teaching
them the skills they
need to make
healthier decisions
and refuse tobacco.
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