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  On the Horizon; Quit ‘N Fit is a study being conducted at the West Virginia Prevention Research Center.  Quit ‘N Fit is a physical activity component that is design to work with the N-O-T program.  It is currently being piloted in schools this spring.  Beginning in the spring of 2007, Quit ‘N Fit will be tested to see if it is effective in not only helping youth quit smoking, but also in helping them become more physically active.  If your school is interested in being part of the study, contact the Quit ‘N Fit Program Manager, Candice Hamilton at chamilton@hsc.wvu.edu or 304-293-5775.

  IN THE NEWS:

Parental smoking still a threat to kids' lungs

By Anne Harding;  Tue Jun 20, 9:49 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new international study of more than 20,000 children confirms that exposure to cigarette smoke before and after birth impairs their lung function, and that parental smoking remains a serious public health issue.

Shortcut to: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060620/hl_nm/parental_smoking_dc_2

Many children still exposed at home to tobacco smoke - exposure linked to behavioral problems

Child Health News; Published: Wednesday, 3-May-2006

According to research in the U.S. even though most Americans are in agreement with smoking restrictions in public places, many adults still expose their children to significant health risks by smoking cigarettes at home.

Dr. Robert McMillen, a Mississippi State University researcher says there have been significant changes in adult attitudes and behaviors over the past six years regarding secondhand smoke, yet 10% of households are prepared to allow indoor smoking in the presence of children.

Shortcut to: http://www.news-medical.net/?id=17752

Passive smoking may harm infants from birth

Ian Sample, science correspondent; Friday May 12, 2006; The Guardian

Significant levels of nicotine and carcinogenic compounds have been found in babies as young as three months, raising fears that some children are being harmed by passive cigarette smoking from birth.

Shortcut to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/smoking/Story/0,,1773198,00.html?gusrc=rss

Swing of Life and Breath Golf Tournament

The American Lung Association of West Virginia invites you to participate in the 2006 Invitational Swing for Life & Breath Golf Tournament at the prestigious Edgewood Country Club Course in   Sissonville on Monday, Aug. 28, 2006.

Come join fellow golfers and enjoy a fun-filled day of golf with real challenges and an array of golfing contests.

The golf "scramble" tournament with a shotgun start will begin at 1p.m. with the first, second and third place teams receiving exciting

golf prizes.

In addition, the Chrysler Dealers of WV is sponsoring a HOLE-IN-ONE. A Chrysler will be awarded to all tournament participants who ace a designated par three contest hole.

Following the tournament, golfers are invited to the club house to enjoy a delicious awards dinner and silent auction. The silent auction will feature many exciting items. Immediately following the dinner, we will hold an awards ceremony and announce the auction winners.

Cost is $125 per player or $500 per foursome.  Please contact Deb Qualls at 1.800.LUNG.USA or dqualls@lunginfo.org or    details. 

At home in West Virginia
 

This school year we’ve had 58 N-O-T programs and 51 ATS programs offered. I have collected program evaluations for 399 students. 32 percent of the students participating in N-O-T have quit using tobacco and 63 percent have reduced their intake (Compared to other programs which only achieve a 12.63 percent quit rate). When we looked at the ATS program we found that although this program is designed solely as an educational program 16 percent of participants quit and 32 percent reduced their use.

We have provided teachers a total of 353 N-O-T Student Journals and 158 ATS Student Journals so far this grant year. I have held five NOT facilitator training events (three grant funded) with 43 participants certified (annual grant goal was 25 certified). We have awarded $14,550 in incentive stipends and $2,950 in mini-grants so far this fiscal year

I would like to congratulate all facilitators that have provided N-O-T & ATS programs in their schools this school year.

Not On Tobacco Programs

Bridge Street Middle School                                    Francie Sagraves

Brooke Place                                                             Rosie Johnson

Buchannon-Upsher High School                              Nancy Bradshaw

Cabell-Midland High School                                     Victoria Carovillano

East Fairmont Junior High School                           Chris Freeman

Edison Jr. High                                                          Sandy Harris

Fayetteville High School                                           Beverly Hall

Fayetteville High School                                           John Mark Kincaid

Fayetteville Middle School                                        Jean Garrette

Gilmer County High School                                      Angie Linger

Greenbrier East High School                                   Chris Hall

Hundred High School                                                Wilma Ornduff

Huntington High School                                             Crystal Schulte

Huntington High School Health Center                    Donna Converse

Jefferson High School                                               Linda Lawson

John Marshall High School                                       Jennifer Pickett

Lincoln High School                                                   Sandra Fain

Morgantwon Area Youth Services                           Dawn Neely

Morgantwon Area Youth Services                           Danny Trejo

Mt. Hope High School                                               Heather Maynard

Mt. Hope High School                                               Jeffrey Eades

North Marion High School                                         Cheryl Conaway

Nuttall Middle School                                                 Stephanie Haynes

Oak Glen High School                                               Ethel Riser

Oak Hill High School                                                 Barbara Breeden

Parkersburg South High School                              Dave Foggin

Parkersburg South High School                              Dave Pahl

Pendleton County High School                                Chris Roberson

Ripley Middle School                                                Amy Haskins

Scott High School                                                      Kevin Graley

South Charleston High School                                 Cil Payne

Taylor County Middle School                                    Mary Ann Merrifield

Tolsia High School                                                    Jamie Lahoda

Valley High School                                                    Vicki Scott

Webster County High School                                   Carrie Mullens

Wellsburg Middle School                                          Ed Wohnhas

Wellsburg Middle School                                          Jeanne Ferrell

Wheeling Park High School                                     Pattie Hershey

Wyoming East High School                                      Karen Green

Alternative to Suspension Programs

Calhoun Middle High School                                    Donna Richards

Fayetteville High School                                           Beverly Hall

Fayetteville High School                                           John Mark Kincaid

Hundred High School                                                Melissa Scyoc

John Marshall High School                                       Jennifer Picket

Lewis County High School                                        Ed Browning

Magnolia High School                                               Donna Sands

Midland Trail High School                                         Donnette Terry

Mt. Hope High School                                               Heather Maynard

North Marion High School                                         Cheryl Conoway

Oak Hill High School                                                 Marian Richardson

Pendleton County High School                                Holly See

Robert Bland Middle School                                    Sonya Turner

Scott High School                                                      Kevin Graley

Sherman High School                                               Shelia Anderson

South Charleston High School                                 Cil Payne

Valley High School                                                    Melissa Scyoc

Wheeling Park High School                                     Leo Boissey

Mark your calendar and plan to join the American Lung Association of West Virginia for the annual Blow the Whistle on Asthma walks. Help us fight the asthma epidemic in this state by raising money for vital research and to support our many asthma education programs, including Open Airways for Schools.

You can join us at either Charleston or the Huntington walk. This year the two cities will compete to see which can raise the most money. The Charleston walk will be held on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2006 at the Capitol Complex. Registration begins at 9 a.m. and the walk begins at 10 a.m. The Huntington walk will be held on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006, at Ritter Park. Registration begins at 12:30 and the walk begins at 1:30.  Check back to the Lung Association website (www.lungwv.org) in the coming weeks to register your team and for more walk details.

REMINDERS

Don’t forget to order your student journals at least one week before your program is scheduled to start.

Another way of getting incentives is community donations. Explain to local businesses that you are trying to help teens stop smoking, and you will get anything from pizza to sodas donated. This is an excellent way of forming education/community partnerships.

STIPENDS

The West Virginia Department of Education’s continued support of the N-O-T program is allowing us to once again provide the $250 stipend for N-O-T classes and $100 stipends for ATS classes. Please remember that stipends are only awarded after all evaluation materials have been returned, unlike the $50 mini-grants that are provided before you begin your sessions.

Incentives   

Mini-Grants

$50 mini-grants are available to get your groups started.  The mini-grant can be used to purchase pencils, stress balls and most importantly, food!  We have heard many times, “If you feed them, they will come!”  Applying for the mini-grant is easy click HERE. 

N-O-T Stipends

Another positive incentive are the $250 stipends, which are available for facilitators after all evaluation materials have been returned to ALAWV.

Student Journals

Program expenses are kept to a minimum since we provide all required handouts for students in this “journal.” Blank pages are provided for the students to write on.

 ATS Stipends

Thanks to a generous grant from the Department of Education Office Of Healthy schools we now have $100 stipends available for facilitators who use the ATS program in their schools.

You can find all these resources and more at our web site click here à N-O-T

Free Technical Assistance! Points of contacts are:

Tony Richards, Program Manager

Not On Tobacco (N-O-T)

American Lung Association of West Virginia

415 Dickinson Street, PO Box 3980

Charleston, WV 25339-3980

(304) 342-6600; 1-800-LUNG-USA

tony@alawv.org / www.alawv.org

Regional Tobacco Prevention Specialist

The RESA Tobacco Prevention Program serves as the regional liaison with the school districts to provide training, technical assistance, and staff development to teachers and staff in the areas of tobacco prevention, education and cessation. Available programs include Life Skills Training, Raze/TATU (Teens Against Tobacco) N-O-T (Not On Tobacco-a research-based cessation program for teens), related youth programs which include tobacco prevention initiatives, tobacco policy considerations and community tobacco prevention coalitions and groups. The Tobacco Prevention Specialist can assist with developing alternatives to suspension programs, youth empowerment and prevention activities. The primary focus is to provide training and technical assistance on any implementation activities as well as provide assistance to County Safe and Drug Free Schools Coordinators.

Community Development Specialists are trained professionals who work locally in their communities to enhance West Virginia’s prevention system. They provide individuals, families, agencies, organizations, and other groups with technical assistance and training to build capacity for sustainable community-based prevention efforts. To find your Community Development Specialist click here.

Newsletter Updates

If you know of something happening with the N-O-T program that you feel other facilitators would benefit from, please call Tony (304)342-6600 or email tony@alawv.org. The newsletter will be published once a month.

If you are interested in our programs and would like more information, or would like to schedule a visit, please call our office.   

Tobacco Websites and Other Interesting Links

New Website “TheScoopOnSmoking” was designed to present in a highly accessible, interactive manner, detailed facts about the health consequences of tobacco use.

Why do we feel that there is a need for this website?

Too often teens (and adults) are simply told that using tobacco -- particularly smoking cigarettes -- is "dangerous." Even the government-mandated warning label gives only a few words of caution -- all in very general terms. But the devil is in the details. ACSH's site -- which is based on a teen-version of ACSH's classic publication "Cigarettes: What the Warning Label Doesn't Tell You: The First Comprehensive Guide to the Health Consequences of Smoking" -- gives specific details of tobacco's deleterious impact on every site of the body and every organ system.

 American Lung Associationà www.alawv.org

Data & Statistics à http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=33347

Not On Tobacco (N-O-T) à http://www.alawv.org/NOT_folder/NOT.htm

Teens Against Tobacco Use (TATU) à http://www.alawv.org/TATU_folder/TATU.htm

West Virginia Prevention Resource Center (WVPRC) à http://www.prevnet.org/

RAZE à www.razewv.com

Tobacco News à www.tobacco.org

National Spit Tobacco Education Program à www.nstep.org

West Virginia Department of Education

http://wvde.state.wv.us/policies/

This site gives the updated list of present WV state education policies, including WV tobacco policy.

CDC’s Tips: Tobacco Information and Prevention Sources

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/publications/aag/osh.htm

This site has several links for Teens and Kids. It also has important research data and report links. This is also a good site to link up to sources for supplemental information as well as getting information on different CDC publications.

Surgeon General’s Report for Kids (SGR 4 KIDS) - Table of contents

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr4kids/sgrmenu.htm

This site is a “kid friendly” information filled site. It would be a good site to bring to the attention of the kids participating in the N-O-T program.

Action on Smoking and Health

http://ash.org

This site is an informative site which has both adult and kid friendly information.

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