Anti-Smoking Resources

"LEADER" On-line: Vol. 6, No. 2
Product Notes: Anti-Smoking Resources

Talk Early, Talk Often

by Michael H. Popkin, Ph.D.
This web site offers pointers to parents for talking with children about not smoking. Explains reasons children begin smoking, demonstrates role-playing and sample parent-child conversations. The is also a free booklet called "Talk Early, Talk Often" that can be downloaded or ordered.
KeepKidsfromSmoking.com

How to Help Your Kids Choose to Be Tobacco-Free: A Guide for Parents of Children Ages 3 through 19

by Robert Schwebel, Ph.D.; Newmarket Press

This hardcover book offers parents a powerful program for preventing or ending their children's tobacco addiction. Provides practical strategies and suggestions to show parents how to help their children learn to make wise health choices and prepare them to meet their physical, social and emotional needs without tobacco. 177 pages.
(This product is no longer available from Active Parenting Publishers.)

Smoking: Truth or Dare
from AIMS Multimedia
This jazzy video (or DVD) gives young people vivid evidence of the damage tobacco does to the body. Uses medical tests and computer imagery to prove that young people who smoke or use chewing tobacco are suffering the deadly effects of tobacco use right now, and the consequences will only get worse. Comes with a 35-page curriculum guide. Available in English or Spanish. 52 minutes.

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TobaccoFree
A 6-session video and discussion program showing teenage tobacco users how to quit smoking and chewing tobacco while teaching their peers not to start in the first place. Comes with a curriculum guide (divided into six 50-minute class sessions) and handouts. Available in English and Spanish. Students will learn:
· Whether they are ready to quit
· Building motivation
· Identifying triggers
· Developing an action plan

(This product is no longer available from Active Parenting Publishers.)

Diary of a Teenage Smoker: Why girls start smoking and how they quit
Designed to entertain, startle and inspire a commitment to being smoke-free. This video explores the "image" that lures young girls to start smoking and uses rock music, humor and slick pacing to reach its teenage audience. With Facilitator's Guide. 26 minutes.
(This product is no longer available from Active Parenting Publishers.)

Reprinted from Leader magazine.
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Product Notes: Anti-Smoking Resources