Youth Curricula Tobacco Zero
Teaching Kids to Resist Social Influences to Use Tobacco
- Fun, computer-based format engages middle school students with a personalized, interactive experience based on the concept of social networking
- Features 5 of games, 10 activities and 4 videos that offer facts about tobacco's harmful effects, decrease the social acceptability of tobacco use, present skills for resisting social influences and demonstrate how addiction removes personal control
- Covers cigarettes and chewing tobacco
- Features a flexible approach that's easily adaptable to community-based prevention programming, existing curricula or as a stand-alone component in a health curriculum
- Stresses peer feedback and influence
- Offers busy teachers an alternative to teaching time in the classroom by offering 90 to 120 minutes of interactive playing time
- Developed by a team of tobacco prevention researchers with 30 years of experience in evidence-based programs
- Includes User's Guide and CD containing 15 computer games and activities (compatible with PC and Mac)
- Minimum computer specifications to run Tobacco Zero: Windows 2000 XP (Pentium III, 600 MHz, 256 MB RAM); Mac OS X, 10.1.5 (Power Macintosh G3, 400 MHz, 256 MB RAM)