Refusal Skills to Prevent

Drug Use
What Are Refusal Skills?
What Are Refusal Skills?
➢ Are set of skills designed to help a
person avoid participating in
high risk behavior
Risky Behavior
The DDB 2019 Household survey gave an insight to the
connection of other risky behaviors such as smoking and
drinking to drug use. It was found that those who started
smoking at 15 years old and below have greater chances
of becoming drug users than others. In the same way,
those who started drinking at 18 years old and below are
more likely to be drug users than others.
What Are Refusal Skills?

➢ Programs designed to discourage crime, drug use, violence,

and/or sexual activity frequently include refusal skills to help
a persons resist peer pressure while maintaining self
respect
What Are Refusal Skills?

➢ Are Ways to say no when someone is pressuring you to do

something you don’t want to do.
What Are Refusal Skills?
➢ When peer pressure builds, use refusal skills to avoid
potentially harmful situations
Refusal skills – ways of saying no

Refusal skills and resisting peer pressure “ The cool

spot”. If someone is pressuring you to do anything
that’s not right or good for you, you have the right
to resist
Refusal skill = Resistance skill
Topic Effective Parenting
Why resisting
pressure can be so
hard for some
people?
Resisting pressure can be hard for some people.Why?
• Are afraid of being rejected
• Want to be liked and don’t want to lose a friend
• Don’t want to be made of fun of
• Don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings
• Aren’t sure of what they really want
 What are refusal skills?

s Say no in a firm voice.

T Tell why not.

O Offer other ideas.

P Promptly leave.
GETTING OUT OF PERSUASIVE
SITUATIONS

REFUSAL SKILLS
 What do these words have in
common?

AVOID
ESCAPE
REFUSE 3 ways to avoid a persuasive situation…
 AVOID: RECOGNIZE WHEN & WHERE A
PERSUASIVE SITUATION COULD OCCUR.
Describe some potential
persuasive situations.

ESCAPE: THINK OF ALTERNATIVES TO

AVOID THE SITUATION.
What are some alternatives to your
persuasive situations?

REFUSE: FOLLOW THROUGH WITH

ONE OF THE ALTERNATIVES.
This is the easiest part, right?
Why or why not?
 Ways to Avoid Temptation

If you know you're going to want to drink

more than you should, implement some methods to
remind yourself to stop. Remember the reasons why you
don't want to get drunk, and think about why a sober
night is important to you.
 • Use the rubber band flick trick. Wear a rubber band
around your wrist. Every time you feel the temptation
to drink, flick yourself back into making a conscious
choice not to.
• Have a buddy to remind you when enough is enough.
This might be a buddy who doesn't drink or is good at
knowing his or her own limits and stopping. Or it
could be a family member.
• Distract yourself. Get up and dance, talk to someone
for a while, or play a game of pool.
• Allow yourself different rewards, like a shopping
spree, a favorite item of food, seeing a movie, or
calling a friend long-distance, if you're able to refrain
from alcohol.[20]
1. Build or continue the
friendship/ relationship.
You may end the relationship,
just do it respectfully.

2. Do not embarrass the

other person or yourself.

3.Need to be reasons, not

excuses or “whatever” lines.
REMEMBER GIRLS &
BOYS…

HAVE YOUR REFUSAL

SKILLS IN PLACE!

It’s cheesy, I know…

But you need to know

what you’re going to say
before your in a
persuasive situation!!!
 Refusal Skills: How to Say No.

Quick Quote:

Be who you are and say what you feel

because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.
 YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE

The most important thing to remember is to

stick to your convictions -- if you don't want
to get into risky behaviors then that is your
decision, no one else's.