title: TABADO: "evaluation of a smoking cessation program among adolescents in vocational training centers": study protocol.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Most of the efforts to reduce teenagers' tobacco addiction have focused on smoking prevention and little on smoking cessation. A smoking cessation program (TABADO study), associating pharmacologic and cognitive-behavioural strategy, on a particularly vulnerable population (vocational trainees), was developed. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of the program which was offered to all smokers in a population aged 15 to 20 years in Vocational Training Centers (VTC). This paper presents the TABADO study protocol.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study is quasi-experimental, prospective, evaluative and comparative and takes place during the 2 years of vocational training. The final population will be composed of 2000 trainees entering a VTC in Lorraine, France, during the 2008-2009 period. The intervention group (1000 trainees) benefited from the TABADO program while no specific intervention took place in the "control" group (1000 trainees) other than the treatment and education services usually available. Our primary outcome will be the tobacco abstinence rate at 12 months.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  If the program proves effective, it will be a new tool in the action against smoking in populations that have been seldom targeted until now. In addition, the approach could be expanded to other young subjects from socially disadvantaged backgrounds in the context of a public health policy against smoking among adolescents.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Clinical trial identification number is NTC00973570.
authors.affiliation: Centres d'Investigation Clinique - Epidémiologie Clinique CIE 6, Institut National de la santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Nancy, France. l.minary@chu-nancy.fr
authors.forename: Laetitia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Minary
authors.forename: Hervé
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Martini
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wirth
authors.forename: Francine
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Thouvenot
authors.forename: Dovi-Stéphanie
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Acouetey
authors.forename: Yves
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Martinet
authors.forename: Abraham
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bohadana
authors.forename: Denis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zmirou-Navier
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Alla
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011446:Prospective Studies; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014829:Vocational Education