The Impact of a Tobacco Control Intervention in African-American Families

"LifeSkills Training (Botvin's) is an evidenced based substance abuse prevention program for elementary school students to learn skills to resist tobacco, alcohol, drug abuse, and violence.~Parent LifeSkills will also be utilized. Parents are provided a parent manual and DVD to use at home with their child to reinforce what they are taught in school-based LifeSkills sessions."

"The healthy lifestyle behavior choices curriculum augments the state health curriculum in the assigned study schools.~Parents will also be given health related information by mail to parallel the information students receive in school health classes."

For parent/guardian smokers who want to quit, NRT is offered in conjunction with MI.