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We are so excited to partner with 11 students so far this year that have made the commitment to stop smoking.
The Mobile County Health Department recently received a $4,000 “Not On Tobacco” grant from the Alabama Department of Public Health’s Tobacco Prevention and Control Program.
(North Carolina) Several Dare County Alternative School students are voluntarily attending daily mid-day workshops on smoking cessation
Award-Winning Interactive Marketing NeboWeb Is Recognized for Development of Not On Tobacco Site, Designed to Reduce Teen Smoking
Not On Tobacco, an evidence-based smoking cessation program for youth, has released a Web site. The Web site harnesses interactive electronic media to expand the program’s reach and adoption.
(OrlandoSentinel.com, FL) When Albert Rabassa signed up for a class at Olympia High to stop smoking, he'd already been puffing on cigarettes for years.
Raised in a family of smokers, he picked up the habit early. By age 17, though, he was tired of plunking down $50 to $60 a month for Newport 100s and using stinky rolls of tobacco to help ease the stress of teenage life.
(OrlandoSentinel.com, FL) Patricia Jemison-Martin — "Mrs. J." as the kids at East Ridge High School call her — started smoking when she was a teenager.
For 20 years, she tried to stop. But the cravings made her crazy. She often lit up in secret because she was so embarrassed by the nasty habit, made worse by the fact that she's a health teacher who had already lost her mom and older brother to cancer caused by smoking.
Eventually, she did ditch her nicotine addiction. In her mind, though, her battle against tobacco was just warming up.
As roughly 90 percent of adult smokers begin smoking before the age of 21, the American Lung Association knows the importance of helping youth and teen smokers kick the habit early.
(Publicnewsservice.org, WI) Kicking butts usually isn't encouraged in school, but that's not the case today. That's because it's 2009 "Kick Butts Day," a day the American Lung Association in Wisconsin says is a good time to think about how to get kids to stop smoking. The Association's "Not On Tobacco" or "NOT" program has helped thousands of kids kick the habit.
(Augustafreepress.com, VA) With roughly 90 percent of adult smokers begin smoking before the age of 21, the American Lung Association knows the importance of helping youth and teen smokers kick the habit early. That’s why the American Lung Association in Virignia offers Not On Tobacco, a 10-session smoking cessation program for high school teens who are likely addicted to nicotine.
(WECT.com, NC) In efforts to prevent teenagers from smoking, the American Lung Association in North Carolina offers Not On Tobacco, a 10-session smoking cessation program for high school teens who are likely addicted to nicotine.
(Medicalnewstoday.com) Nicotine addiction is powerful and can overcome even the best of kids. The American Lung Association's Not On Tobacco Program (N-O-T) is helping teens across the country break free from the deadly grip cigarettes has on more than 2.5 million American kids.
(Huntingtonnews.net, WV) The most widely used and widely researched teen smoking-cessation program in the nation – developed at West Virginia University by Kimberly Horn, Ed.D., and Geri Dino, Ph.D. – will receive a big blast of publicity in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 23.
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