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Most tobacco users initiate use as youth or young adults. To promote tobacco cessation for this group and encourage non-users’ engagement in tobacco control efforts, a community-based organization developed a “Street Team” brief outreach intervention that enlisted youth and young adults to encourage their peers to stop tobacco use through a brief intervention. Street Team members provided education, a Quit Kit, and referrals to cessation resources at a total of 27 community events over a four-year period. Tobacco users (n = 279) completed assessments of tobacco use, quit intention, and quit self-efficacy at baseline. Self-reports of cessation outcomes including past week abstinence were assessed 1-, 3-, and 6-months post-intervention. Perceptions of the intervention were gathered from Street Team members (n = 28) and intervention participants post-intervention. T-tests and χ2-tests were used to compare those who completed at least one follow-up assessment to those lost to follow-up. Time effects were analyzed using fixed effect models. Missing = using analyses indicate 16.1, 18.6, and 12.5% 7-day quit rate at 1-, 3-, and 6-months follow-up. Feedback from intervention participants indicate the intervention was acceptable and that discussions with Street Team members and provision of quit kits motivated tobacco users to consider quitting. All Street Team members responded positively to their participation in the intervention. This Street Team approach for youth and young adults is promising as an effective approach to the promotion of tobacco cessation among users and engagement and empowerment in tobacco control efforts among non-users.
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We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Leslie Snoke Ferreira and Gustavo Torrez, who developed the Street Team intervention and provided feedback on this paper. We also thank Camilla Cummings for her contributions to the data analyses.
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This study was funded by County of Sacramento Department of Health and Human Services, Tobacco Litigation Settlement Funds - Tobacco Cessation, Education and Prevention Services; California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (#22BT-0057H).
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Saw, A., Steltenpohl, C.N., Bankston-Lee, K. et al. A Community-Based “Street Team” Tobacco Cessation Intervention by and for Youth and Young Adults. J Community Health 43, 383–390 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-017-0435-3
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