N.O.T.
Not On Tobacco (N-O-T) is the American Lung Association’s school-based program* designed to help high school students:
(1) Stop smoking
(2) Reduce the number of cigarettes smoked
(3) Increase healthy lifestyle behaviors
(4) Improve life management skills
- Includes a 10-session curriculum and booster sessions. It is voluntary.
- Uses a set of selection criteria for identifying facilitators
- Emphasizes facilitator training in nicotine addiction, curriculum content and implementation, and group process
- Is gender sensitive and separates participants by gender
- Uses content and delivery tailored to the adolescent population
- Incorporates awards and incentives
- Emphasizes stress management and daily life management skills
- Includes an evaluation protocol
- Includes a mental health referral protocol
HOW IS N-O-T IMPLEMENTED?
- By teachers, counselors, nurses or health educators in schools and community settings
- Through non-punitive recruitment
- Using 10, 1-hour sessions plus boosters
- In small private groups
- To boys and girls separately
- By same-gender facilitators
N-O-T EVALUATION PROTOCOL
- Evaluation is designed to address:
- Program objectives
- Curriculum content
- Staff and facilitator reactions
- School and community sites
- Recruitment
- Implementation
- Outcomes
*Easily adapted to community setting.
To implement N-O-T, contact Amy Ellis
American Lung Association of Mississippi
731 Pear Orchard Road, Ste. 18 Ridgeland, MS 39157
P.O. Box 2178 Ridgeland, MS 39158
TOLL FREE: 1-800-586-4872 or 601-206-5810
FAX – 601-206-5813
Email: aellis@alams.org
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