"ready4life" shows effect
Less stress, less tobacco and more social skills: The Lung League's health promotion project "ready4life" helped over 2,000 learners lead addiction-free lives in the 2017/18 school year. The program will continue in 14 cantons in the coming school year.
"Although I don't smoke, I was able to benefit from "ready4life." The program showed me how to better deal with stress." This is the conclusion of a learner who took part in the Lung League's health promotion project "ready4life" during the 2017/18 school year and won the main prize, a two-week language trip from EF Education First. The aim of "ready4life" is to use an SMS-based coaching program to strengthen learners' life skills and thus encourage them to adopt an addiction-free life to lead.
In the 2017/18 school year, over 2000 learners participated in "ready4life". How the Evaluation shows that the health promotion project is working: both non-smokers and smokers experienced less stress after participating in the program. The SMS coaching also improved various areas of social competence, such as the ability to approach others, to express one's own needs and to stand by oneself. And finally, there was a reduction in the number of smoking Participants of the Consumption of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis.
14 cantons now participate
In the past school year, ready4life was offered in five cantons. In the 2018/19 school year, students from the cantons of Aargau, Basel-Stadt, Basel-Landschaft, Bern, Geneva, Lucerne, Nidwalden, Obwalden, Schwyz, Solothurn, Ticino, Vaud, Valais, Zug and Zurich can participate. For this reason, "ready4life" is now also offered in Italian in addition to German and French.
The project "ready4life" was developed in cooperation with the Swiss Institute for Addiction and Health Research (ISGF) and the Institute for Technology Management at the University of St. Gallen (ITEM-HSG). The national coordination of the project is the responsibility of the Swiss Lung League.
Text: Swiss Lung League
