Developing School-Based Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Programs / Edition 1

by Steven Yale Sussman, Clyde W. Dent, Dee A. Burton, Alan W. Stacy, Brian R. Flay

Overview

A recent report from the United States Surgeon General shows that some school-based tobacco use prevention programmes have proved successful in discouraging first use of tobacco among children. Dissemination of these programmes, however, has been minimal. Taking a health researcher's perspective, the authors of this volume discuss the history, status and needs of school-based tobacco use prevention//cessation research. Issues addressed include how to implement such programmes and the major theoretical and methodological issues involved. Details of the Project Toward No Tobacco Use (TNT) are also covered.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803949287
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/24/1994
Series:	Sage Library of Social Research
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	0.71(w) x 5.50(h) x 8.50(d)

About the Author

Dr. Steve Sussman is a professor of preventive medicine and psychology at the University of Southern California. Dr. Sussman conducts research in the prediction, prevention, and cessation of tobacco and other drug abuse and in the utility of empirical program development methods. He is first author on the book Developing School-Based Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Programs (1995), based on his previous research in that arena. He is also the editor of Handbook of Program Development for Health Behavior Research and Practice (2001), a leading text in this arena, and he is the lead author on the upcoming text The Social Psychology of Drug Abuse (with Susan L. Ames; September, 2001).

He was the principal investigator of Project Towards No Tobacco Use (Project TNT). Project TNT is a tobacco use prevention and cessation project among young teens, which is being disseminated nationally by the Centers for Disease Control as a "Program That Works" and by the Centers for Substance Abuse Prevention as a model program. It is also recognized as a model program by the Department of Education of the State of California, Sociometrics Inc, and by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Recently this project also became recognized as an exemplary program by the U.S. Department of Education.

His other projects include Project EX, a successful adolescent tobacco-use cessation program which was tested through use of a large, true field experimental design, and Project Towards No Drug Abuse (Project TND), which is a drug abuse prevention project for older teens, particularly for those at risk for drug abuse. Project TND is now considered a model program by the Centers for Substance Abuse Prevention, Health Canada, Sociometrics Inc, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. He has published over 160 articles, chapters, or books in the arena of drug use and abuse.

Alan W. Stacy is Director of the University of Southern California (USC) Transdisciplinary Drug Abuse Prevention Research Center, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. He is also Associate Professor at the USC Department of Preventive Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in social and personality psychology in 1986 from the University of California, Riverside. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Washington and at USC. Dr. Stacy has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles on addiction, focusing on cognitive models of drug use. He was one of the first investigators to apply implicit cognition approaches to the addiciton area. His research on implicit cognition was recently acknowledged in the Tenth Special Report to Congress on Alcohol and Health.

Table of Contents

Foreword - C Anderson Johnson
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF SCHOOL-BASED ADOLESCENT TOBACCO USE PREVENTION AND CESSATION PROGRAMS
Beginnings
Tobacco Use Prevalence and Consequences
Focus and Content of Prevention and Cessation Programs
Phases in the History of School-Based Prevention Programs
PART TWO: THEORETICAL BASIS AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF THE PREVENTION COMPONENT OF PROJECT TOWARDS NO TOBACCO USE (PROJECT TNT)
Social Influence in Etiology and Prevention of Tobacco Use
Sampling, Design and Tracking Issues
Alternative Methods of Assessment of Tobacco-Use-Related Variables
PART THREE: CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND FOLLOW-UP IN PREVENTION
Curriculum Development Applied to Prevention in Project TNT
Lesson Contents and Implementation
Prevention Program Evaluation
PART FOUR: CESSATION COMPONENT OF PROJECT TOWARDS NO TOBACCO USE (TNT)
History, Theoretical Basis and Program Development of Adolescent Tobacco Use Cessation Research
Cessation Clinic Evaluation
PART FIVE: CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN TOBACCO USE PREVENTION AND CESSATION PROGRAMS
Discussion of Prevention and Cessation Results
Remaining General Issues in Adolescent Tobacco Use Research

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer:
Description: This book is somewhat unusual in that it brings together background information on adolescent tobacco use and school-based prevention efforts with an extensive description of a series of research studies developed and conducted by the team of authors.
Purpose: These research efforts seek to develop school-based tobacco use prevention and control programs.
Audience: This book is of interest to researchers in this field, health education practitioners in the field, policymakers who might seek more in-depth knowledge in this field, and anyone who might appreciate the intricacies of research methods. The book would be of much value to students and future researchers in tracing the research process from beginning to end and in providing examples of several research tools and products.
Features: There are ample charts, graphs, and tables provided to illuminate the research process and its findings. The references are very appropriate, plentiful and current. The most unique feature of this book is its value in presenting the what and how of an extensive and important research effort.
Assessment: This book fills an interesting niche in that it is a useful resource on school-based tobacco use prevention and control programs; at the same time, it is an excellent resource describing real-world research methods and tools. Although interested audiences may be limited, this book is well written, informative, and practical. It would make a useful addition to health sciences libraries, especially those at institutions of higher learning.

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3 Stars from Doody