N-O-T Incentives

N-O-T Stuff (for N-O-T Facilitators)

Electronic budget form
Excel spreadsheet to track N-O-T program expenses (form was also sent with check).

"The Knot" e-newsletter (current issue and archive)

N-O-T Incentives

Order N-O-T incentives online!
DVDs, evaluation forms, posters, quit kits, videos, water bottles, workbooks—all the stuff you need for a successful N-O-T program. Free for N-O-T facilitators in Colorado.

* Other free N-O-T incentives available at www.steppitems.com

N-O-T incentives for download

   Lollipop tags (Word document)
Print these tags on Avery 5560 labels and wrap them around the stem of a lollipop!

   N-O-T meeting invitation cards (PDF)
Prints double-sided to Avery template 5371 (business cards). Ten cards to an 8.5" x 11" sheet. On the back, affix Avery label 5260 with the time and place of your N-O-T group meetings.

   Quit cards (PDF)
Includes two versions: 1) Tired of Smelling Bad? 2) Chained to a Cigarette?

   Free posters (PDF)
Download and print on tabloid-size paper (11 x 17)

Videos on loan and free prevention resources at preventioncolorado.org.

   APPLY ONLINE
Apply for funding to offer the N-O-T program at your high school for the 2008-09 school year. Funding is available through March 2009.

   How effective is N-O-T?
Full disclosure of Colorado's stats
     • 2008-2009 brief report (PDF)
     • 2007-2008 brief report (PDF)
   Program locations
Colorado high schools currently offering the N-O-T program, listed by county (Word DOC)

   Youth cessation links
A wealth of online resources to help stop teen smoking, including the 'Own Your C' campaign.

For N-O-T facilitators:

   • Implementation Report
   • Final Report

   Upcoming N-O-T facilitator trainings

What it means to be smoke-free
In recognition of the 2003 Great American Smoke Out, ALAC sponsored an essay contest for students to share their thoughts about what it means to be smoke-free. Here is the winner written by Krystal Rodriguez of Urban Peak, Denver.

I’m sitting at a concrete table outside of the teen homeless shelter I live at, thinking about my future and whether or not I have what it takes to survive on my own. Then a puff of cigarette smoke is blown toward me, engulfing my face. At 17 years old, I have watched almost everyone in my life slowly killing themselves by smoking cigarettes.

According to my observations, most people become addicted to cigarettes at a young age. I have become aware of big tobacco companies targeting their marketing strategies at youth and I have seen the effect it has on young smokers. I feel that cigarette ads I encounter in magazines that teens read have themes or images that attract teens and focus on their interests. It outrages me every time I encounter an (tobacco) ad because I cannot understand why these prominent magazines would encourage their readers to use a product that is known as the leading cause of cancer.

I choose not to smoke because I do not want to die from a smoke related cause. Isn’t that reason enough for anyone not to smoke? Apparently not. The common response to this statement is “so, we’re all gonna die anyway.” That’s not sufficient enough reason for me and I pity all who feel that way. I have lived among the rich and empowered, in communities where the youth drive BMW’s and go to out of state universitities. And I have lived in the streets, where the youth spent most of their lives in group homes and juvenile detention centers. Among all of them I found one parallel: smoking doesn’t escape anyone.

I know how hard it is to survive in this world with all of its pressures and hardships, as a young person trying to build up her future. I have goals and dreams. Why slowly kill myself with cigarettes as I’m trying so hard to make a better life for myself? I want to live as fully as I can. Don’t you?