Free Facilitator Training Opportunity

Free Facilitator Training Opportunity
If your students needed pencils, would you provide them? If they needed paper, would the teacher provide it? If
they were being abused, would you allow it to go on? Of course, the answers to these questions are yes, yes and
NO. Well students that smoke lack tools to be able to quit using…. Not On Tobacco (N-O-T) can provide the tools

they need.

Did you know that:

Tobacco users have more absences
Smoking causes memory and cognitive impairment in adolescents
Nicotine withdrawal causes increased anger, hostility AND AGGRESSION
Young Female Smokers Face Higher Breast-Cancer Risk
Tobacco addiction is nearly immediate in youth
Youth Desire to Quit Smoking, But Don't Seek Effective Care

As a direct result of the N-O-T and ATS programs in FY 10/11, we had a combined quit rate of 34% or 90 children
that gave up tobacco; this does not measure the number of children that may quit at 3 and 6 months post program.

ALA in Hawaii reports a 60% quit rate 3-6 months post program.

Although N-O-T was specifically designed and researched only for smokers, in West Virginia they have been
encouraging smokeless users to participate in the program since 2003. Preliminary results are very positive (up to

76% quit), spit tobacco users are successfully quitting tobacco by implementing the tools they learn in N-O-T.

Alternative to Suspension (ATS) Program
The ATS program is also taught simultaneously with N-O-T and can be offered as an option to students who face
suspension for violating a school’s tobacco use policy. It consists of four sessions that address student tobacco
use; the program is flexible and can be adjusted to the individual school’s needs. Unlike N-O-T, this program is

mandatory and may serve as a motivator for teens to join the N-O-T program when they are ready to quit.

Training The Facilitators
Facilitators who run the program must be skilled and sensitive so they can effectively relate to teens, listen
supportively to their concerns and refer them to the extra help they may need, both in the school and in the

community. Learn these facilitation skills and more at this year’s training.

Date and Location:
Lewisburg WV 3/16/2012; Wheeling WV 3/21/2012; Ranson WV 3/29/2012;

Moorefield WV 4/3/2012; Charleston WV, 4/24/2012

Lunch and all supplies are included! This training is free to any adult serving youth in West Virginia. (Out

of state individuals are welcome but there is a fee please contact Tony for pricing.)

Please contact Tony Richards directly for registration forms trichards@lunginfo.org

CEU may be available for Nursing and Respiratory Therapist.

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