We give them a peer teacher guide book that they can use as a guide for their own presentations. This is a program to help teens stop smoking. This program is probably the first cessation program designed specifically for teenagers. It is a voluntary program, for high school age teenagers. Initial results from this national program show that NOT helps teens stop smoking, or reduce the number of cigarettes they smoke.
Reduction is often the first step to quitting entirely.
Teens have different reasons for smoking than adults do, and that is why ALA designed this program, to address those issues that teens have. We are almost out of time. Anyone who needs help, if you have a child with asthma, we have several programs. We have much literature to help parents educate themselves. The first step to keeping your child with asthma healthy is education.