Youth Cessation Resources
Clinicians
The Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
Published in 2000, this guideline provides recommendations for clinicians to consider for helping children and adolescents quit smoking. See an excerpt on Children and Adolescents »
Parents and Teachers
Materials for Parents and Teachers
The National Institute on Drug Abuse developed these materials specifically for parents and teachers.
Sites for Parents, Educators, and Youth Group Leaders
Compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this list includes and array of resources related to tobacco prevention and control, including color posters that promote the benefits of quitting smoking.
Tobacco Free Schools
Healthy Youth: Tobacco Use
This site, hosted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division, includes information on tobacco use among young people and fact sheets on the School Health Policies and Programs Study.
Health Policy Coach: Tobacco Free Schools
The Center for Health Improvement developed this fact sheet to explain how tobacco-free schools fit as part of a healthy school environment
Teens and Young Adults
Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights: Young Adults
Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights has created a page devoted to Young Adults within the Target Populations section of its web site. It focuses on how the tobacco industry targets young adults and provides “Fast Ways to Tell the Tobacco Companies to ‘Butt Out’!”
NIDA for Teens
This web page created especially for teens by the National Institute on Drug Abuse gives the scoop on smoking and includes tons of information about nicotine. Have a question? Try the “Ask Dr. NIDA” feature!
Tips4Youth
You will find more than a dozen links to cool info and resources related both to preventing tobacco use and quitting smoking on this site hosted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Streetheory.com
This online e-advocacy site, sponsored by the American Legacy Foundation, includes lots of tobacco-related information and great ideas for taking action. Check out the feature story on quitting smoking.
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