Youth

Ready to address your vaping? You’re in control.

If you’re age 13 to 26 and want to change your vaping, you can get free help through the Live Vape Free!

Just text “VAPEFREE” to 873373. You’ll get texts from coaches to help you reduce vaping, or quit vaping, it’s up to you. You’re in control. We go at your pace.

Also, your doctor can prescribe you a medication that has been shown to improve odds to quit vaping.

Evidence on What Works

Want a deep dive into research?

• Guidelines: UW-CTRI contributes to new guidelines to treat adolescent vaping
  • Check out the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations on helping youth quit tobacco use, or that of the American College of Preventive Medicine
  • New: American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) Youth Tobacco Cessation: Considerations for Clinicians. This brief, free, practical guide is designed to support pediatric health clinicians in screening patients for tobacco use and providing behavioral and pharmacological support to help youth quit.
    • The resource uses an easy, 3-step model, “Ask-Counsel-Treat (ACT),” to guide clinical interactions around cessation.
    • AAP Youth Tobacco Cessation Case Studies
  • Talk to teens about tobacco use
  • Posters by teens for teens
  • Visit UW-CTRI’s page on vaping.
  • Youth Indoor and Outdoor Exposure to Secondhand Smoke and Secondhand Aerosol