Be on the lookout for the NPS Student Council's NEW anti-vaping ads!
Check out our student-created anti-vape campaigns!
We're so proud of our students! Members of the 2025 NPS Student Council worked with us to create a new batch of posters to inform their peers about the dangers of vaping. TNP is using their posters for a digital campaign during summer 2025. Click through them here, and also see some past "No Vape November" posters created by students from our TNP Teens (formerly Norwalk Strong) clubs!
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Video Discussion: What Norwalk Parents
Should Know about Vaping (17 min.)
Note: Video was made in 2022 and cites stats from our 2021 Norwalk Youth Survey. The content is still valid!
When youth moved away from smoking cigarettes, Big Tobacco created vapes. By 2019, vaping was very popular, with close to 1 in 3 young people vaping. Then, EVALI lung disease sent people to the hospital. In response, the legal age for vaping changed to 21. Since then, our biannual Norwalk Youth Surveys have shown a decline in youth vaping. In 2024, only 4% of all Norwalk 7th-12th grade students reported vaping nicotine in the past month. But Big Tobacco is now marketing nicotine pouches to youth!
TNP is raising awareness that nicotine is dangerous and very addictive. We have worked closely with Norwalk Public Schools on a restorative approach to help students found vaping at school.
Resources for Quitting Nicotine
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Smokefree Teen app - Text "QUIT" to 47848.
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National Institute of Health-run smoking cessation program.
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Enroll in Commit to Quit CT - 24/7 live coaching
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Free tobacco pouches/medication for eligible clients
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Text VAPEFREECT to 88709 or call 1-800-QUIT-NOW - Confidential helpline, 24/7 support
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MyLife.MyQuit app - Text "Start My Quit" to 36072
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This is Quitting app - Text "DITCHVAPE" to 88709
Resources
"What You Need to Know About Vaping:" Facts & conversation guide for parents.
Government website summarizing the latest research and providing resources.
"The Menthol Issue: We fight against the marketing and sale of deadly tobacco products to African Americans." Info and factsheets on menthol and cigarrillos.
Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes (PAVe) offers webinars, video & print materials, and advocacy.
Stanford offers a free Tobacco and Cannabis toolkit. Use the link to find vaping prevention curricula for elementary, middle, and high school classes with all materials available for download: curriculum guide, lesson plans, videos, kahoots, etc. There are separate curricula for tobacco and cannabis.
Also use the link to access Stanford's free "Healthy Futures" Alternatives to Suspension curricula,. Schools can access separate curricula for nicotine and cannabis, with shorter and longer versions of the programs (self-paced one-hour; 2 hour facilitated; 4 hour facilitated).
"Inspiring lives free from smoking, vaping and nicotine." Videos, factsheets, and more