Quit4Life

Publisher:

Health Canada 2005

Availability:

Free
English, French
www.quit4life.com

Format:

Facilitator's Guide, Participant handbooks, blackline masters and posters

Audience:

Adolescents who wish to quit smoking Preparation time: Recruitment of students

Resources required:

Facilitator's Guide, Participant handbooks, and posters for a 10-week, 4-step smoking cessation program

Approach:

10-week, four-step group program to help Canadian youth quit smoking

Quit4Life exists because smoking is the leading preventable cause of serious illness and death in Canada. In 2003, 18% of Canadian Adolescents 15-19 were smokers, down from the 28% reported in 1999. If adolescents who smoke have the opportunity to participate in cessation programs that are suitable for them, the rate of adolescent smoking likely will continue to decline.

Application/relevance to curriculum:

Substance Use and Abuse and Risk-Taking Behaviour expectations of the Healthy Active Living Education curriculum.

Comments:

A comprehensive smoking cessation program. Program can be used as a whole, or blackline masters may be copied to supplement Healthy Active Living Education curriculum.