Developing School-Based Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Programs

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.

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