Vaping & Cessation

Know The Facts

CDC: Educators: What Are the Health Risks of Vaping for Youth?

The developing brain is more vulnerable to nicotine addiction than the adult brain. In fact, nicotine use in adolescence may put youth at risk for addiction to other substances in the future. As an educator, talk to your students about e-cigarettes to help them understand the risks and empower them to develop positive coping skills instead. Watch to learn more about the impact of nicotine addiction on the developing brain and temporary withdrawal symptoms that can lead to a cycle of nicotine addiction.

What are the risks of vaping for youth?

Brain Development

Using nicotine during adolescence can harm brain development which continues until about age 25. It can also impact learning, memory, and attention.

Further Use

Youth who use e-cigarettes or other electronic nicotine devices are more likely to use regular cigarettes.

Harmful Chemicals

Aerosol is not harmless and can contain nicotine, cancer-causing chemicals, heavy metals such as nickel, tine, and lead, and flavorings that have been linked to lung disease.

Source: cdc.gov/e-cigarettes

New Jersey Cessation Resources

New Jersey Quitline

NJ Quitline is a free telephone-counseling service for smokers who are ready to stop.

A trained Quit Coach who has years of counseling experience will listen – without judgment – and help to create a plan for quitting, including how to cope with cravings and ways to avoid slips and relapse.

Quit Coach Hours: 24 hours/7 days a week

Number of attempts per year: 3

Enrollment:

  • Fax-to-Quit from provider;

  • Toll free 1-866-NJ STOPS; 

  • www.njquitline.org (web-enrollment)

Nicotine patches available for eligible callers.

MQC for Families

MQC for Families is a free, statewide program offered to pregnant women, new moms, dads, family members and others caring for or living with children under 8 years old, who want help to stop smoking. Tobacco Treatment Specialists meet with clients to help them begin to reduce and quit smoking.

Sessions are unlimited, include incentives and are scheduled at the convenience of each client. Individual quit plans, as well as a plan to help you stay quit are created in partnership with your quit coach.

Learn more at momsquit.com

MQC Quit for Kids

Quit for Kids is a statewide texting program as part of MQC for families specifically for pregnant women and partners; parents, family members and caregivers of children
under 8.

Customized text messages to:

  • Support successful quitting

  • Manage triggers

  • Prevent relapse

  • Educate about child development

  • Offer personalized coaching

Text QUITFORKIDS TO 53016

Tobacco Free for a Healthy New Jersey

Tobacco Free for a Healthy New Jersey (TFHNJ) is New Jersey’s largest collaborative effort to reduce the health consequences of tobacco use — including vaping — and the harm from secondhand smoke exposure through prevention, education and cessation in all 21 counties, including 11 Quit Centers.

Co-led by the New Jersey Prevention Network and Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative, with funding from the NJ Department of Health Office of Tobacco Control, TFHNJ engages local coalitions and public health advocates to promote tobacco-free initiatives through 10 regional coalitions.  

This comprehensive approach involves a network of coordinated activities to help reduce exposure to second-hand smoke, reduce youth access to cigarettes, vaping and other tobacco products — and to help those who do smoke or vape to stop. TFHNJ works with schools, colleges, worksites and communities to develop and implement initiatives that promote a tobacco-free New Jersey.   

For example, over 400 young people across the state are informing their peers and communities of the dangers of vaping and smoking; over 1,000 adults have been trained in “Don’t Get Vaped In” so they can educate schools, parents and communities.

We’ve mobilized communities to support several state laws that make New Jersey a national leader — including Tobacco 21, which raises the age of sale to purchase tobacco products to 21, legislation that prohibits the prohibits the sale of flavored e-cigarettes and the revision to the smoke-free air act which makes all parks and beaches smoke free.

We’ve also assisted New Jersey colleges in joining more than 2,000 college campuses nationwide that are 100% tobacco free. And we’ve helped businesses to provide supportive worksites that are 100% tobacco free.

Learn more about TFHNJ at www.tobaccofreenj.com.