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Introduction

1. An intervention is a specific service, activity, or ___________ intended to change behavior or the environment.  

Chapter One: What You Should Know About Tobacco-Use Cessation

2. More that 80% of adult tobacco users in the United States began using tobacco regularly before age 18, and the prevalence of tobacco use is now higher among this age group than among other adult populations.

3. Teenagers who smoke are three times more likely than nonsmokers to use alcohol, ______ times more likely to use marijuana and _______ times more likely to use cocaine.

Youth's Desire To Quit And Quit Attempts

4. In the United States, approximately 42% of current smokers in high school and middle school reported one or more quit attempts in the year before being surveyed.  

Applying Adult Interventions to Youth

5. Tobacco dependence is a chronic condition that often requires repeated intervention for successful cessation.

A Comprehensive Approach to Tobacco Control

6. A comprehensive tobacco control program should include which of the following components?

The Importance of Environmental Factors

7. Raising the overall cost of tobacco has not been proven to significantly reduce youth tobacco use.

Chapter Two: Getting Started-Understanding Your Organization's Role and the Needs of Your Community

8. Before selecting a tobacco-use cessation program, an organization should examine its role and ____________ in the community to be served.

Assessing Community Needs and Your Organization's Capabilities

9. Community context/environmental factors that should be considered when assessing an organization's capabilities include:

Involving Stakeholders

10. Stakeholders who may be important in implementing a tobacco cessation program include leaders in the organization, community leaders, people who work directly with youth, and the young people who make up the target audience.

Planning For Evaluation

11. In evaluating a cessation program, the number of cigarettes smoked during a specific period, motivation to quit, self-efficacy for quitting, and number of quit attempts are known as _____________ actions.

A Rural County High School's Cessation Intervention

12. In a rural high school cessation intervention program known as Teens Against Tobacco Use (TATU), stated interventions included:

Chapter Three: Selecting a Cessation Intervention for Youth

13. Approaches that show the most promise for youth tobacco-use cessation include sensory deprivation techniques.

Common Methods for Delivering Tobacco-Use Cessation Interventions and How They Apply to Different Goals for Youth

14. The interventions most likely suited to reach youth with tobacco-related health problems are brief interventions in medical settings and:

Brief Interventions

15. Brief Interventions usually involve each of the following EXCEPT:  

Pharmocotherapy

16. Prescription medications available for tobacco-use cessation include the nicotine patch, nicotine inhaler, and sustained release tablets.

Cognitive-Behavioral Components

17. Which of the following is NOT one of the basic elements of a cognitive-behavioral intervention for tobacco-use cessation?

Skills Training

18. In a tobacco-use cessation intervention, social support seeking strategies are used to teach youth how to ask others for help.

Chapter Four: Understanding How To Better Serve Your Youth Population-Age, Sex, Education, and Cultural Background

19. Youth of various ages and levels of development, education, literacy, and with varying cultural backgrounds will likely respond differently to tobacco cessation interventions.

20. Research from 2003 identified each of the following about tobacco use among youth populations EXCEPT:

Patterns of Use

21. Many young tobacco users have inconsistent patterns of use and therefore may not feel that they are "regular" users or "addicted" to tobacco.

Knowledge, Attitudes, And Beliefs About Tobacco

22. Although youth may be susceptible to tobacco advertising, research has shown that they tend to buy the least expensive cigarettes rather than the most advertised brands.

Fear Of Being Rejected By Peers

23. Youth who use tobacco tend to underestimate the use of tobacco by their peers and feel the need to hide their smoking from them in order to fit in.

Need To Control Their Lives

24. A youth cessation intervention may be framed as helping the adolescent gain control in their life and therefore assist in creating a sense of:

Chapter Five: Monitoring Your Progress-Evaluating the Process and Outcomes

25. An outcome evaluation examines how well you implemented and operated your intervention, while a process evaluation determines whether the strategies you used were effective in attaining your goals.

The Ideal Evaluation to Test Effectiveness

26. The best way to determine the effectiveness of an intervention is to use randomized control trials, also called:

Information About The Intervention

27. SMART objectives for interventions should be specific, measurable, attainable, ___________, and time-sensitive.

Essential Information About Participants

28. Tobacco-cessation participants should be screened for psychological problems, behavioral issues and high-risk practices.

Evaluating Effectiveness

29. Exit and post-intervention client surveys should be conducted at end of intervention and regularly thereafter at _______________ intervals.

30. Although the ideal outcome for an intervention is complete abstinence from tobacco, this may not be easy to achieve because relapse is common for tobacco users.