SMOKING CESSATION INTERVENTION FOR YOUTH

对尼古丁上瘾的青少年人数持续上升。鉴于在青少年时期对尼古丁上瘾的人更有可能在成年后继续吸烟，并在成年后遭受吸烟带来的毁灭性健康后果，必须付出更大的努力来帮助年轻人戒烟。迄今为止，帮助青少年戒烟的干预措施很少。丹雅国际公司组建了一支高素质的员工、专家和合作者团队，开发和评估针对青少年的多方面戒烟干预措施，在内容和形式以及设计过程中，都将反映最先进的研究成果，并让青少年参与技术创新的开发和生产。在第一阶段，将制作和试验一部教育和激励录像，以及六期戒烟课程和促进者手册。还将开始规划一个支持干预行动及其参与者的网站。在第二阶段，网站将全面开发；干预课程和相关材料将根据第一阶段试点的结果进行完善，并将对戒烟一揽子计划进行正式评价。该计划将向学校、社区项目和诊所、健康维护组织和州卫生部门销售。将与主要的传播组织和交流中心，如联合起来、美国烟草和烟草协会和疾病控制与预防中心吸烟与健康办公室建立联系，以促进戒烟干预措施。

The numbers of youth who are addicted to nicotine continues to rise. Given that people who become addicted to nicotine during adolescence are much more likely to continue smoking as adults and to suffer the devastating health consequences of smoking in later adulthood, greater efforts must be taken to help youth to quit smoking. Few interventions have been developed to assist youth to quit smoking to date. Danya International Inc. has assembled a qualified team of staff, experts and collaborators to develop and evaluate a multi-faceted smoking cessation intervention targeting adolescents which, in both content and format, as well as in its design process, will reflect state-of- the-art research findings and involve youth in the development and production of technological innovations. During Phase I, an educational and motivational video, along with a six-session smoking cessation curriculum and facilitator s manual, will be developed and piloted. Planning for a website which will support the intervention and its participants also will be initiated. During Phase II, the website will be fully developed; the intervention curriculum and associate materials will be refined based on results of the Phase I pilot, and a formal evaluation of the smoking cessation package will be conducted. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION The program will be marketed to schools, community-based programs and clinics, health maintenance organizations, and state health departments. Linkages with key dissemination organizations and clearinghouses, such as Join Together, NCADI and the CDC Office on Smoking and Health, will be brokered to promote the smoking cessation intervention.