Project towards no tobacco use: 1-year behavior outcomes.

Two-year behavior outcomes of project towards no tobacco use.

The article presents 2-year follow-up data from a school-based tobacco use prevention project designed to test the effectiveness of 3 primary components in social influence programs. The components either teach refusal skills, awareness of social value misperceptions, or physical consequences. Curricula were tested with a randomized experiment involving 48 junior high schools. These data sugges...

Project Towards No Drug Abuse: long-term substance use outcomes evaluation.

OBJECTIVES This paper presents up to 5 years post-program outcomes of Project Towards No Drug Abuse (Project TND), a drug abuse prevention program conducted in South California alternative high school system during years 1994-1999. METHODS The effects of a 9-session health motivation--social skills--decision-making curriculum were evaluated. Twenty-one schools recruited were randomly assigned...

Project Towards No Drug Abuse

sociocultural reasons for smokeless tobacco use behavior

Frequency of tobacco use among students in Varamin city: Results of the first phase of the PAD project study (Tobacco Use Prevention in Schools)

Introduction: Smoking among adolescents is a matter of concern that has attracted the attention of many officials and experts in various fields such as health-care, psychology, and sociology. This study was conducted in 2019 to evaluate the status of smoking in students at the individual and familial levels. Materials and Methods: This study was performed based on the analysis of the results of...