Resource Directory
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E-Cigarettes and Vape Pens
- Videos
- “Smoking vs Vaping” AsapScience
- “Do Vape Pens Trick Teens?” Youth Radio
"Do Vape Pens Trick Smokers?" Youth Radio
- “NIDA TV Spotlight on Electronic Cigarettes” National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA/NIH)
- “Teens Using E-cigarettes More Likely to Start Smoking Tobacco” NIDA/NIH
- “Tobacco Industry's Campaign to Hide the Hazards of Smoking” Stanford Medicine
- "Educators worry students don't know vaping health risks" PBS News Hour
- "JUULERS AGAINST JUUL" (Students Against Nicotine)
- The JUUL Phenomenon by Robert Jackler (SRITA)
- "Identify which products teens are vaping" (Tobacco Free CA)
- PDF's
- “Electronic Cigarettes and Youth” Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
- “Electronic Cigarettes: An Overview of Key Issues” Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
- “E-Cigarettes and Teens: A Guide for Parents and Educators” Safe Kids America
- "E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Products Visual Dictionary" Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- "State Health Officer's Report on E-Cigarettes: A Community Health Threat" California Department of Public Health
- Websites
- UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
- "What Are We Vaping? | NotSoSafe.org" OCDE
- Relevant Scientific Articles
- "Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Use and Perceptions of Pod-Based Electronic Cigarettes" JAMA Open Network
- "Association Between Electronic Cigarette Use and Myocardial Infarction" American Journal of Preventive Medicine
- "Association Between Initial Use of e-Cigarettes and Subsequent Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescents and Young Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis" Journal of American Medical Association Pediatrics
- "E-cigarettes and National Adolescent Cigarette Use: 2004 - 2014" Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics
- "Increased Cardiac Sympathetic Activity and Oxidative Stress in Habitual Electronic Cigarette Users: Implications for Cardiovascular Risk" Journal of American Medical Association
- "Psychosocial Factors Associated With Adolescent Electronic Cigarette Use" Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics
- "Pulmonary toxicity of e-cigarettes" American Journal of Physiology
- "Quantifying population-level health benefits and harms of e-cigarette use in the United States" PLOS-One
- "Relationship between spending on electronic cigarettes, 30-day use, and disease symptoms among current adult cigarette smokers in the U.S." PLOS-One
- "Risk factors for exclusive e-cigarette use and dual e-cigarette use and tobacco use in adolescents" Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics
- "Short Term respiratory effects of e-cigarettes in healthy individuals and smokers with asthma" Respirology
- "The Juul Curriculum Is Not the Jewel of Tobacco Prevention Education" Journal of Adolescent Health
- "Youth Say Flavored E-Cigarette Ads are for Them" Journal of Adolescent Health
Nicotine and Other Drug Addiction
- Videos
- “How Addiction Changes Your Brain” CNN
- “Addiction 101 | Raj Mehta | TEDxUofM” TEDxTalks
- “Understanding Addiction as a Disease” Wait21
- “Reward Pathway in the Brain” KhanAcademyMedicine
- “Tolerance and Withdrawal” KhanAcademyMedicine
- “The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain” TED Global
- Podcasts
- California high school student podcast titled Trapped: Understanding Addiction. Listen to "Episode 9: Drug Facts - Nicotine and Tobacco w/Dr. Bonnie Halpern-Felsher"
- Websites
- “The Science of Drug Abuse and Addiction: The Basics” (NIDA/NIH)
- “The Science Behind Drug Abuse For Teachers” NIDA for Teens
- “Drugs, Brains, and Behavior: The Science of Addiction” (NIDA/NIH)
- “Stress and Drug Abuse: The Brain Connection"
- “Teen Drug Use” Partnership for Drug-Free Kids
- “Designed for Addiction: How the Tobacco Industry Has Made Cigarettes More Addictive, More Attractive to Kids and Even More Deadly” Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
- “Signs of Cigarette and Tobacco Use and Addiction” NIDA
- “The Science Behind Drug Addiction” Coalition Against Drug Abuse
- “Nicotine Addiction: Past and Present:" How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease: A Report of the Surgeon General
- “The Science of Addiction” Coalition Against Drug Abuse
- Addiction is a Disease
- “Adolescents Brains are Works in Progress” PBS
- "New insights into the adolescent brain" Medical X-Press
- PDF’s
- “Preventing Drug Use among Children and Adolescents” (NIDA/NIH)
- “Using Drugs to Deal with Stress and Trauma” The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Resource 1
Resource 2 - “Nicotine and Addiction” Action on Smoking and Health
- “Nicotine Addiction” World Health Organization
- “Tobacco Company Quotes: Nicotine as a Drug” Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
- “Evolution of the Tobacco Industry Positions on Addiction to Nicotine.” World Health Organization
- "50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General, 2014. Chapter 5: Nicotine" U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
- Academic Publications
- “Biological basis of tobacco addiction: Implications for smoking-cessation treatment" Indian Journal of Psychiatry
- "Nicotine-mediated cell proliferation and tumor progression in smoking-related cancers" American Association for Cancer Research
- "Thirty-day smoking in adolescence is a strong predictor of smoking in young adulthood" Preventative Medicine
- Lesson Plans
- “Lesson Plans and Printables” Scholastic
Positive Youth Development
- PYD Examples
- Peer Leaders Uniting Students (PLUS)
- Protecting Health and Slamming Tobacco (PHAST)
- Thumbs Up! Thumbs Down!
- "Tobacco Litter in the Tenderloin (2013)" San Francisco Tobacco-Free Project
- Youth on Board
- Books
- The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action by Cathy Berger Kaye
- Videos
- Alameda County Office of Education PSA Contest Winner
- Be Smart, Don't Start: Alameda County Videos
- Anti-Tobacco Cartoons Kern County
- Tobacco Free Kids
- Truth YouTube Channel
- PDFs
- Center for Health and Safety Culture Toolkit
- "Guide to Engaging Youth in Policy Change" Friday Night Live
- "The Lee Law Toolkit" Friday Night Live
- "Listening to Young People" Youth on Board
- “Prevention Tactics” The EMT Group, INC.
- "The Time is NOW for Service Learning: Engaging, Relevant, REAL" CBK Associates
- "Tips from Young People" Youth on Board
- "Tobacco Control Best-Practices Guide" CDC
- "Tobacco Control Program" The California Department of Public Health
- "Unpacking What Works" National Youth Leadership Council
- "Youth Development Guide" The Community Network for Youth Development
- "Youth Led Social Norms Campaigns Tookit" California Friday Night Live and the Youth Leadership Institute
- Websites
- Bad Advertising
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Fresno County Decoy Program
- Build the Wheel
- California Healthy Kids Survey Data
- California's Tobacco Use Prevention Education Program
- California Youth Advocacy Network
- Healthy Stores for a Healthy Community
- Kick Butts Day
- Media Literacy Library
- National Youth Leadership Council
- Reality Check of New York
- Rock Your World
- San Francisco Tobacco-Free Project
- Students Working Against Tobacco
- Texas Say What!
- Tobacco Free Kids
- The Truth Campaign
- University of Kansas Community Toolbox
- Youth Activism in Tobacco Control
- Youth Engagement Alliance
- Youth on Board
- YES! Youth Empowerment Solutions
School Policies
Parents/Guardians
- Tobacco Prevention Information for Parents and Families, from the American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Tobacco Control, Julius Richmond Center of Excellence
- Tips for Parents, from the Office of Adolescent Health
- Talking to Teens about Tobacco Use, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- E-Cigarettes and Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems: What Parents Need to Know (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Tips for Talking to Kids about Smoking (American Lung Association)
- Talk, they hear you, from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- Organizations
- Parents Against Vaping E-Cigarettes (PAVE)
- Videos
- Tobacco, Vaping and Marijuana: A Parent's Guide to a New Epidemic (Nevada County TUPE)
- "Identify which products teens are vaping" (Tobacco Free CA)
- Tobacco Use Stats
- General data on tobacco use, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Adult use of tobacco
- Adolescent and adult use of tobacco
- Youth Cessation Websites
- Helping Young Smokers Quit: Identifying Best Practices for Tobacco Cessation
- Resources for Qutting Smoking (Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids)
- My Life My Quit: Free Help for Teens
- This is Quitting (Truth Initiative)
- Become an Ex
Cessation
- UCSF Cessation leadership center (has some great resources in addition to cessation) —
http://smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu
https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/resources/stop-smoking
https://smokefree.ucsd.edu/resources-to-quit/index.html - http://smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu
- “How Can I Quit Smoking?” Teen Health http://kidshealth.org/en/teens/quit-smoking.html
- “Youth Tobacco Cessation: A Guide for Making Informed Decisions” Center for Disease Control: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/quit_smoking/cessation/pdfs/youth_tobacco.pdf
- “With the Jury Out on Vaping, Clinicians Pause to Identify the Cons of E-Cigarettes” - blog from Georgetown University's School of Nursing and Health Studies: https://online.nursing.georgetown.edu/blog/effects-of-e-cigarettes-vaping/
Youth Serving Non-Profits
Agencies
Resources for Youth
Brain Science
- “The Teen Brain Still Under Construction” NIMH
- “Inside the Teenage Brain” PBS
- “Inside the Teenage Brain Program” PBS
- Quick Links
- Map of the Human Brain
- “Know Your Brain” NIH
- “Addiction and Brain Circuits” Brainfacts.org
- In-Depth Resources
- Neurosciences Online: An Electronic Textbook for the Neurosciences
- “The Brain: Our Sense of Self” NIH
- Major Structures and Functions of the Brain
- “The Life and Death of a Neuron” NIH
- Neuroanatomy and Physiology of the "Brain Reward System" in Substance Abuse
- “The Pleasure Centers” The Brain from Top to Bottom. McGill University
- “Brain Power: Grades 6-9” NIH
- Neuroscience for Kids- Types of Neurons (Nerve Cells)
- Molecular Cell Biology- Overview of Neuron Structure and Function
- Khan Academy- Anatomy of a Neuron
- “The Life and Death of a Neuron” NIH