Tobacco and Vaping Education

Tobacco Prevention, Education, and Cessation classes

• Freedom From Smoking: Is a systematic approach to stop smoking by starting with assessing readiness to quit, building motivation and self-confidence. This is a 7 week course that meets once a week for one hour. It uses practical problem solving skills for the quitting process and teaches how to develop coping skills. It encourages you to use nicotine replacement therapy, which is using medication to help stop smoking. The Freedom From Smoking program is effective also by teaching maintenance strategies to help people continue to be nonsmokers, because “staying quit” is the difficult part.
• Catch My Breath: is a free, evidence-based vaping prevention curriculum developed by UTHealth School of Public Health for students in grades 5–12. Delivered in four interactive lessons, it aims to raise awareness about the dangers of e-cigarettes, correct misinformation, and build refusal and decision-making skills. The program includes up-to-date health information, peer-led activities, social-emotional learning components, and optional assessments, with resources for family and community engagement. Research shows it effectively increases knowledge, strengthens anti-vaping attitudes, and reduces students’ intentions to vape.