E-cigarettes and Vaping
New findings related to e-cigarette and vaping health effects are continually surfacing. YouCanQuit2 actively monitors these updates and works to bring you the most recent resources to support your patients and other important populations on these topics.
Support Patients
- Surgeon General Advisory on E-cigarettes: Find the Surgeon Generals advisory on the youth and young adult e-cigarette epidemic and utilize relevant resources to share the facts.
- Provider-Specific Information: Find information specific to health care professionals to educate your young patients about the risks of e-cigarettes.
- Truth Initiative – This is Quitting Campaign: Share the This is Quitting Campaign with patients who may be interested in quitting. The campaign is equipped with approachable resources to help young people quit vaping including a texting program.
- Clinical Cessation Tools: Find evidence-based information and clinical guidelines for treating tobacco use and dependence from the CDC and other trusted resources all on one page.
- American Lung Association’s Guidelines for Health Professionals for Everyday Tracking of E-Cigarette Usage: Find guidance that supports providers in their understanding and tracking of e-cigarette and vaping use.
- FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products Resources for Professionals About Vaping and E-Cigarettes: Utilize these fact sheets to support your efforts to curb vaping among youth.
- American Medical Association’s Tobacco Smoking, E-Cigarettes and Vaping Continuing Medical Education Course: Gain important guidance on how to counsel patients on the risks of tobacco smoking, e-cigarettes, and vaping.
- Stanford’s Vaping Information, Solutions & Intervention Toolkit: Find up-to-date information on vaping, youth friendly printouts for the clinical setting, information for screening and counseling, and more.
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)’s Reducing Vaping Among Youth and Young Adults: Utilize this guide to find research findings, emerging and best practices, identify knowledge gaps and implementation challenges, and more.
Support Parents
- CDC Vaping-Specific Resources: Share these resources with parents so they can educate their kids about the harms of vaping.
- Truth Initiative’s Top Tips for Parents and Educators: Guide parents to this page for a multitude of resources around vaping prevention and quitting.
- SAMHSA’s “Talking with Your Teen About Vaping” Brochure: Share this resource with parents for easy-to-read guidance to help them keep their kids safe from vaping.