Toolkit Helps to Evaluate Youth Smoking Cessation Programs

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Helping Young Smokers Quit, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation directed by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers, has developed a youth smoking cessation program evaluation toolkit. The toolkit gives youth smoking cessation program leaders a mechanism for evaluating their programs’ effectiveness in helping high school aged-smokers successfully quit.

“Youth smoking cessation programs are invaluable, but often the individuals and organizations who provide these programs do not have the time, money or experience to conduct an evaluation of their program to figure out if it helped young people quit smoking,” said Robin Mermelstein, co-director of the Helping Young Smokers Quit project and director of UIC’s Institute for Health Research and Policy.

The toolkit provides surveys, reports, and the opportunity to for program leaders to see how their programs compare with results from a national sample of youth smoking cessation programs.
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