Model Smoking Prevention Program

The Model Smoking Prevention Program (MSPP), formerly known as the Minnesota Smoking Prevention Program, is a smoking prevention program designed to promote awareness and knowledge of the harms of tobacco use among school-aged children. The goals of MSPP are to 1) help youths identify the reasons why their peers smoke (e.g., peer pressure, advertising, lack of self-confidence); 2) provide resistance tools they can implement; and 3) emphasize the value of social support for resistance through peer leadership activities. Over six classroom sessions, the program provides educationally based strategies to help students abstain from tobacco use. The program was developed to allow students to work in collaboration with their peers to apply these strategies.

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