According to the CDC, one in five high schoolers use e-cigarettes. Recently, vaping has been suspected of causing life-threatening acute lung issues. While health officials are still investigating, it’s becoming clear that vaping has serious health consequences. Even if you feel shut out by your high schooler’s friends these days, you’re still the most important influence in their life. Talk to your kids about vaping early and often to help prevent them from starting and stop if they already have. Here’s what you need to know to tackle these conversations so your high schooler can confidently face the pressure of vaping.

Only one in 20 middle schoolers use e-cigarettes, but one in five high schoolers do. Recently, vaping has been suspected of causing life-threatening acute lung issues. While health officials are still investigating, it’s becoming clear that vaping has serious health consequences. You’re still the most important influence in your child’s life. Talk to them about vaping early and often. Here’s what you need to know to tackle these conversations so your child can confidently face the pressure of vaping.

This resource guide is meant to give guidance counselors the information, tools, and resources they need to lead indivudal or group support sessions to talk to teens about stress management and offer them effective stress management strategies that can help to keep them vape free.

In a time when vaping increases risk of susceptibility, severity, and spread of COVID-19, share this Anti-Vaping COVID-19 Poster in your community to get kids to stop or never start vaping.

Invite your students to participate in a timed competition to develop communications materials (posters/videos/etc) that reframe vaping as a socially unacceptable behavior. Select a judging panel to evaluate submissions and award top submissions with select prizes. Use this anti-vaping competition announcement poster to share competition and evaluation rules, prizes and other credit incentives to encourage students to submit their campus-wide Public Service Announcements.

Provide students with this Student PSA Tip Sheet sharing campaign best practices for vaping awareness/health communications and sharing available campus resources to help them develop and submit their PSAs.

Incentivize your students to turn in their vapes at school using this Turn In Your Vape Promotional Flyer; share high-value raffles and memberships at centers of youth interest in your community.

To incentivize sustained behavior change, provide students who turn in their vapes with this Staying Vape-Free Tip Sheet, which included student-tailored educational information about the harms of vaping, the benefits of not vaping, tips for talking to a friend about quitting, and tips for quitting.