ALA receives grant to help teen smokers quit
(June 22, 2010)—
The American Lung Association was recently awarded a grant from the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation to help young people ages 14-19 quit smoking. Not On Tobacco, the American Lung Association's voluntary, smoking cessation program for high school students, is a core component of our smoking cessation efforts.
N-O-T was created in the mid-1990s through a partnership between the American Lung Association and researchers at the West Virginia University Prevention Research Center. Over the ten-week program, participants learn to identify their reasons for smoking, healthy alternatives to tobacco use, and people who will support them in their efforts to quit. An estimated 15.5% of high school students in Virginia smoke and more than 8,000 youth under 18 become new daily smokers each year.
