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Information About Youth Vaping for School Health Services

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Further your education

  • New! Continuing Education Units. The Massachusetts Quitline provides free accredited continuing education modules to help a variety of providers care for their patients with tobacco dependence. Several courses cover the topic of vaping.  
  • New! Youth Tobacco Cessation App. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ new clinical decision resource. This app is intended to assist physicians and other clinicians in supporting youth tobacco cessation by delivering the Ask-Counsel-Treat model in a tool designed for use within a clinical encounter. Designed for multi-system use, a progressive web app can be utilized on a computer, tablet or offline mobile app.
  • New! Youth Tobacco Cessation Case Studies. In partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office on Smoking and Health, the American Academy of Pediatrics recently announced a new training resource to support clinicians in adopting the “Ask – Counsel – Treat” (A.C.T.) cessation counseling model. Case studies combine didactic teaching with practical conversation examples to demonstrate how to use the A.C.T. model in a variety of scenarios.
  • New! The Vaping Information, Solutions, and Interventions Toolkit (VISIT) from Standford Medicine was created for adolescent and young adult health professionals. The Toolkit can accelerate the process of learning about this issue, screening and counseling your patients, and guiding them to the best treatment for nicotine and/or cannabis vaping dependence.

Educate students on the harms of nicotine and e-cigarette use

Provide resources to parents about talking to their teens

  • How to Talk with Your Kids about Vaping – Massachusetts Health Promotion Clearinghouse (also available as website content on GetOutraged.org.)
  • Want to Help Your Teen Quit Vaping/Using Tobacco? - This flyer is for parents/guardians of teens and provides information on signs of nicotine addiction, how to talk with their teens about the issue, free resources to help them quit, and ways to support them through their quit journey. This resource is available in English and Spanish to order and in Portuguese to download from the MA Health Promotion Clearinghouse.

Share resources for quitting tobacco

To help youth

  • Resource Card to provide youth with information on quitting resources available from the Massachusetts Health Promotion Clearinghouse.
  • This is Quitting powered by truth® – A free and confidential texting program for young people who vape. Young people can text VapeFreeMass to 88709 to get started.  (See Resources for Quitting section for more information)
  • My Life, My Quit™ - Provided by the same vendor as 1-800-QUIT-NOW (Massachusetts’ Quitline), My Life, My Quit has youth coach specialists trained to help young people by phone or text. Young people can call or text Start My Quit to 36072 or call 855-891-9989 for free and confidential help or visit mylifemyquit.com to sign up online. (See Resources for Quitting section for more information)
  • Smokefree Teen – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • NEW! NOT for Me - From the American Lung Association, a self-guided, mobile-friendly web-based program that gives teens the resources to quit vaping, smoking, or chewing tobacco products. This new digital modality is based off of ALA’s Not On Tobacco (N-O-T)® youth cessation in-person group program curriculum. 

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