The intervention is being delivered to several hundred women in Los Angeles County public clinics. Empirical curriculum development was used to assess what might compose effective prevention or cessation videotapes for African Americans and other minority groups. Thus, currently developed comprehensive social influences prevention programming and current self-help videotape enhanced cessation programming is likely to be effective across subgroups. However, ethnic group identification and empowerment themes were relevant additions to such programming.
Additional analysis is ongoing.
In this study a series of assessment studies was used to discern the antecedents, parameters, and immediate consequences of smokeless tobacco and cigarette use. A series of curriculum development studies were also used to create empirically-derived programming. Clinic cessation programming is planned with use of a nicotine patch as part of a pending field experimental project.