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.
You and Me, Together Vape-Free Curriculum
Elementary School (2 lessons) | Middle School (5 lessons) | High School (5 lessons)
Overview: Addressing key factors in youth e-cigarette use by correcting misperceptions, strengthening refusal skills against marketing and peer influence, reducing stress and depression, improving coping, and lowering both intention & use of e-cigarette products.
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.
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: Addressing nicotine, tobacco, & cannabis use—especially among LGBTQ+ youth—by targeting key drivers, reducing stress, exploring identity, & building refusal skills
What's Menthol Got to Do With It?
All Ages (2 lessons)
Overview: Focuses on menthol nicotine/tobacco products and how they are marketed to attract youth, people of color, and LGBTQ+ youth. Focuses on helping young people understand what menthol tobacco is, what it does to the body, and how menthol tobacco is purposely targeting 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.
Let's Be Smokeless: Tobacco-Free
All Ages (1 lesson)
Overview: Aimed at addressing key factors associated with smokeless tobacco. Understand the risks and learn about the history of smokeless tobacco 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.