Welcome to Stanford REACH Lab's Tobacco Prevention Toolkit!
This Tobacco Prevention Toolkit, developed by the Stanford REACH Lab, is comprised of a collection of curriculums, lessons, programs, and resources catered to prevent and reduce adolescent and young adult tobacco/nicotine use. While there are some crossovers between our 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.
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
Elementary School (2 lessons) | Middle School (5 lessons) | High School (5 lessons)
Overview: This updated curriculum addresses key factors in youth e-cigarette use (and touches on all tobacco/nicotine along the way) and helps youth make healthy decisions by addressing misperceptions, strengthening refusal skills against marketing and peer influence, addressing stress that can lead to use, improving coping skills, and reducing both intentions and use of e-cigarette products. You & Me also includes updated content emphasizing that all e-cigarettes, including non-nicotine e-cigs, and all tobacco/nicotine products, can harm the developing brain and body. We also give attention to diverse learning styles, neurodiversity, and different experiences.
Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension Program (ATS)
Middle School | High School | Young Adults
Overview: An Alternative-to-Suspension (ATS) Program including a 40-60 minute self-paced, interactive course and/or a 2 or 4-hour facilitated course. This course is for any student found using tobacco/vaping on school campus, or anyone working with students who want to quit and/or reduce use.
Not So Sweet
Middle School | High school (2 lessons)
Overview: A curriculum on oral nicotine and smokeless tobacco, including prevention of nicotine pouches like Zyn.
Healthy Habits, Healthy Planet
Middle School | High School (3 lessons)
Overview: Focuses on helping young people understand the environmental risks of tobacco. From the lifespan of growing to disposing of tobacco products to impacts on both the indoor and outdoor environments, this curriculum will help students think critically about the impacts of tobacco on the environment.
The PRIDE Curriculum
Middle School | High School (4 lessons)
Overview: This lesson focuses on learning about the ingredients in cigarettes and the health effects of smoking, and touches on the history of the tobacco industry.
What's Menthol Got to Do With It?
All Ages (2 lessons)
Overview: The menthol curriculum is a two-lesson curriculum on menthol nicotine/tobacco products and how they are marketed to attract youth, people of color, and LGBTQ+ youth.
Un-PACK-ing Cigarettes
All Ages (1 lesson)
Overview: Designed to discuss the rise of the tobacco industry, and the technology involved around it. This lesson also discusses health effects, ingredients, the history of tobacco, and health factors associated with cigarette use.
Hookah TellMe?
All Ages (1 lesson)
Overview: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.