Resources for Tobacco-Free and Vaping-Free Schools and Communities

Schools and districts nationwide are challenged with creating vape-free and tobacco-free campuses that support students’ health and academic success. Evidence shows that exclusionary discipline, such as suspension or expulsion, does not reduce use of tobacco products and disproportionately impacts students of color.

Our Action Center provides no-cost access to resources that include our Tobacco-Free District Model Policy, Thriving Schools Integrated Assessment, and Tobacco-Free District Policy Builder. View these and other tools to help build your team, create an action plan to track progress, download data reports, and much more.

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Featured Resources

Use comprehensive, policy language when updating tobacco-free and vaping-free school board policies, administrative rules, and student code of conduct documents.

Access this eLearning to create effective tobacco and vaping policies with your district and school leadership teams.

Use this checklist to implement a tobacco-free policy and reduce student and staff tobacco use and vaping on school grounds.

Tobacco and Vaping Prevention

A national youth vaping prevention curriculum to educate students about the dangers of e-cigarette use.

Use this guide to help teach your students all they need to know about the dangers of tobacco use. (Grades K-2)

A six-lesson, theory-based and evidence-informed curriculum created by the Stanford REACH Lab as well as by educators, healthcare providers, and scientists.

Use this guide to help teach your students all they need to know about the dangers of tobacco use. (Grades 3-5)

Middle and high school lesson plans and resources from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products.

These resources explain how nicotine changes the way the communication centers in the brain work and ultimately cause their effects.

A youth e-cigarette, JUUL, and vape prevention program specific to grades 5-12.

The American Lung Association shares strategies and resources for discussing tobacco use, prevention and cessation within Hispanic and/or Latino communities.

A free, bilingual, online curriculum, aligned with National Education Standards and 21st Century Skills, to help teens learn and build skills to avoid tobacco and nicotine.

Tobacco and Vaping Cessation

A one-hour eLearning for school and healthcare professionals and community members on how to conduct a brief intervention with teens using e-cigarettes or tobacco.

This program helps teens develop a quit plan, identify triggers, practice refusal skills, and receive ongoing support for changing behaviors.

Sends daily texts to teens ages 13-17 years old who want to become smokefree.

The app is a free smartphone app that helps you quit smoking with tailored tips, inspiration, and challenges.

A free mobile program from Truth Initiative designed to help young people quit vaping.

Seeks to give teens the resources they need to break nicotine dependency and find healthier outlets.

Free, culturally responsive resources to help Indigenous populations quit smoking or using other tobacco products.

This tip sheet provides three steps that pediatric clinicians and nurses should follow to address youth tobacco use.

Tobacco-Free Schools

Access this eLearning to create effective tobacco and vaping policies with your district and school leadership teams.

Connect people to resources in a timely, consistent, and equitable way by implementing a clearly defined referral pathway.

Identify and share available tobacco-free resources in your district and community with students, families, and caregivers.

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Use this checklist to implement a tobacco-free policy and reduce student and staff tobacco use and vaping on school grounds.

Worksheet: Align tobacco-free and vaping-free school policies and practices with the HEARTS model.

The Empower Vape-Free Youth campaign encourages middle and high school educators to speak with students about the risks of e-cigarettes and includes resources to help students avoid or quit vaping.

CATCH provides research-based K-12 and after-school programs that include whole child coordination, health & nutrition education, Physical Education, physical activity, social & emotional learning, vaping prevention, oral health, and sun safety.

A free, comprehensive youth advocacy training program created by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids in partnership with the CVS Health Foundation.

YVAPE is a free educational program with phone coaching support for students who have been vaping at school. Available to California public middle and high schools.

Supportive Discipline

Resolve conflicts and address harm in a productive and fair way and promote accountability and connection in your school community.

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Watch this recorded webinar to identify the health and educational impacts of tobacco use and vaping and discuss supportive discipline strategies to support students who use tobacco and vaping products.

The CDC shares resources to support tobacco-free policies and strategies for implementing tobacco prevention programs as an alternative to out-of-school suspension for students.

A convenient alternative to suspension program that helps schools and communities address the teen tobacco/vaping problem in a more supportive way.

The Healthy Futures/Alternative to Suspension Curriculum is geared for students who are using tobacco products and/or for any students who are interested in trying to quit.

Resources for Families

CDC's tip sheet offers facts and practical ways to start conversations with young people about the risks of e-cigarette use.

The Office of the U.S. Surgeon General shares information about the dangers of e-cigarette use by young people.

Explore this list of tobacco-prevention resources from Parents Against Vaping.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) shares information for parents and caregivers to learn more about the dangers of e-cigarettes.

Join the Tobacco Endgame community to learn more about ending tobacco and nicotine addiction.

This public awareness campaign equips parents with the facts about e-cigarettes and support conversations before kids start to vape.

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