Objective: Focus on personal responsibility in the program, emphasizing that the decision whether or not to smoke is a personal choice.

Implementing the Plan

Program Goal: Give participants skills to deal with stressful situations without smoking.

Objective: Send participants into stressful situations knowing that they will trigger the urge to smoke, tell the participants to expect conflict, and provide the tools for dealing with that conflict.

Evaluating the Outcomes of the Plan of Action

Program Goal: To maintain a 35%-45% rate of people who not only stopped smoking, but had not resumed smoking a year after the end of the program, which is the success rate seen in hospitals.

Objective: To attain full participation in follow-up surveys assessing whether or not participants had stopped smoking and were still smoke-free, this can be done during the individual follow-up counseling that is already part...

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