Welcome to Stanford REACH Lab's Tobacco Prevention Toolkit!

Here you will find a variety of resources regarding nicotine and tobacco. For resources around cannabis and other drugs, please visit our other toolkits above.

What's a toolkit?

Toolkits are developed by the Stanford REACH Lab and comprise of a collection of curriculums, lessons, programs, and resources catered to a specific topic. While there are some crossovers between toolkits, our intent is to keep everything packaged and easy for educators, parents, and the like to navigate our resources. For any questions or concerns please contact us directly at stanfordreachlab@stanford.edu.

You and Me, Together Vape-Free Curriculum

The You and Me, Together Vape-Free curriculum includes a middle and high school program that are 6 lessons, approximately 50 minutes each. It also includes a two-lesson elementary school version, approximately 50 minutes each. Every lesson provides activitiesonline quiz games, and worksheets in addition to presentationsresources, and other materials aimed at addressing key factors associated with youth e-cigarette use.

Healthy Futures Curriculum: Alternative-to-Suspension Curriculum

An Alternative-to-Suspension (ATS) program created by the Stanford REACH Lab. this course is for any student caught using tobacco/vaping on school campus, or anyone working with students who want to quit.

 

Smokeless Tobacco 101 Curriculum

1 lesson providing activities, online quiz games, worksheets and discussion guides. The material is aimed at addressing key factors associated with smokeless tobacco. Understand the risks and learn about the history of smokeless tobacco use.

 

Un-PACK-ing Cigarettes Lesson

1 lesson about cigarettes providing activities, a discussion guide followed by a Kahoot! This material is aimed at addressing key factors associated with cigarette use and discusses: health effects, ingredients and the the history of the tobacco industry.

Hookah 101 Curriculum

1 lesson providing activities, online quiz games, worksheets and discussion guides. The material is aimed at addressing key factors associated with hookah use. Understand the risks and learn about parts of a waterpipe.

 

Explore Factsheets & Posters

Factsheets can be used to educate your community about the harms of using tobacco/nicotine. Use as handouts or post them up in educational or clinical settings to educate your audience.

Quitting Tips for Nicotine

If you or someone you know is trying to quit nicotine and tobacco, check out our slides below to learn more about resources available for you and methods you can utilize to quit. 

Quick Background

The Tobacco Prevention Toolkit (TPT) is a research-informed and validated set of curriculums (download a 1-page overivew of TPT publications below) to help prevent students from starting or escalating use of any tobacco product. The goal is to: 

 

Understand basic information about tobacco products, including e-cigarettes/vape pens, and the harm they cause

Gain awareness of strategies manufacturers of tobacco, including e-cigarettes/vape pens, employ to increase use among adolescents through deceptive and creative marketing strategies

Gain skills to refuse experimentation and use of tobacco


Download 1-pager of Tobacco Prevention Toolkit publications: