ATCP

The Adolescent Tobacco Use Awareness and Cessation Program (ATCP) is designed to develop, evaluate and disseminate effective cessation programming in conjunction with Texas legislation. The program began in 1996 with funding from the Texas Cancer Council to develop a voluntary smoking cessation program directed at adolescents in Texas. It has evolved into the state program into which youth who have been ticketed for tobacco purchase, possession or use are directed by the state. Facilitators who are trained to work with adolescents provide information about tobacco as well as ways to help them quit when they choose to do so. Sessions combine information about health effects of tobacco, tobacco advertising and manipulation, etc. with activities designed to prompt participants to begin evaluating their motivations for tobacco use, environmental influences on tobacco use, psychosocial triggers to tobacco use, perceived barriers to cessation, etc. ATCP serves around 5,000 adolescent smokers in Texas (ages 13-18) per year.

ATCP partners include Texas Department of Health and the University of Houston.

For More Information about ATCP , please contact:
hsccommatcp@tamushsc.edu