Help to Quit Vaping
Please reach out to any of the following West Valley staff members who are ready and eager to help you quit vaping. We’re here to help!
Mr. LaBrake: mlabrake@wvalley.org
Mrs. Locke: alocke@wvalley.org
Truth Initiative's This is Quitting Text Service
This is Quitting is a free and anonymous text messaging program from Truth Initiative designed to help young people quit vaping. The first-of-its-kind quit program incorporates messages from other young people like them who have attempted to, or successfully quit, e-cigarettes.
Teens and young adults can join for free by texting DROPTHEVAPE to 88709.
Resources
- American Lung Association's Vaping Conversation Guide
- American Lung Association's What's In an E-cigarette?
- Campaign for Tobacco Free Kid's Electronic Cigarettes: An Overview of Key Issues
- Campaign for Tobacco Free Kid's E-cigarettes: Flavored Products Fuel a Youth Addiction Crisis
- CDC's E-cigarettes
- National Institute on Drug Abuse's Tobacco/Nicotine and Vaping
- NYS OASAS's Talk to Prevent
- NYS Quitline's Vaping and E-cigarettes
- Operation Parent
- SAMHSA's Talk They Hear You
- Talk It Over: Parent Resources for Talking About Substance with Young People
- Truth Initiative's Mental Health and Nicotine Resources
- Truth Initiative's What You Need to Know About the Rise in Disposable E-cigarettes
- Two-thirds of NYS Healthcare professionals say we are experiencing a youth vaping epidemic
- U.S. Surgeon General's Know the Risks of E-cigarettes & Young People