Health and Wellness, Substance Abuse Prevention (High School) Courses
Vaping: Know the truth™
- Change
- Choose
- Explore
- Know
- Overcome
- Uncover
Why Adopt This Course?
This health and wellness course gives students core knowledge around the health effects associated with using vaping products (nicotine, cannabis, or co-use). It was created by Truth Initiative, the public health organization behind truth®️, the nationally recognized youth tobacco prevention and education campaign. This course also offers resources to help young people who are currently using tobacco or nicotine to quit through Truth Initiative’s EX Program, a proven-effective digital cessation solution that combines behavioral support, text coaching, and the most established online quit community.
At-A-Glance
Grade Level
8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thLength
6 digital lessons, 15 min each, and up to 9 hr of offline learning
Language
Standards
National Health Education Standards (NHES); CASEL Social and Emotional Learning Competencies
Curriculum Fit
Health, Advisory, Homeroom, Life Skills, and FCS
Students learn that nicotine products come in many forms, including cigarettes, vapes, and oral nicotine pouches.
This module breaks down tobacco and nicotine products to show what they contain, how they’re marketed, and why claims of safety are misleading. It highlights the harm nicotine use causes to health, mental health, and the environment and emphasizes that all nicotine products are addictive, while quitting leads to real health improvements.
This lesson challenges learners to consider the dangers of nicotine addiction, reinforces addiction as a primary danger of vaping, and lays the framework for quitting.
This module explains how the brain makes decisions and how nicotine can hijack that process. It gives students tools to help them make healthy choices and decisions, and deal with stress and peer pressure.
This lesson equips learners with knowledge regarding cannabis use by exploring the health effects, risks, and consequences of vaping cannabis and the co-use of nicotine and cannabis.
This lesson helps learners reflect on why young people may turn to cannabis and orients them toward choices they can make to take better care of themselves.
Students learn that nicotine products come in many forms, including cigarettes, vapes, and oral nicotine pouches.
This module breaks down tobacco and nicotine products to show what they contain, how they’re marketed, and why claims of safety are misleading. It highlights the harm nicotine use causes to health, mental health, and the environment and emphasizes that all nicotine products are addictive, while quitting leads to real health improvements.
This lesson challenges learners to consider the dangers of nicotine addiction, reinforces addiction as a primary danger of vaping, and lays the framework for quitting.
This module explains how the brain makes decisions and how nicotine can hijack that process. It gives students tools to help them make healthy choices and decisions, and deal with stress and peer pressure.
This lesson equips learners with knowledge regarding cannabis use by exploring the health effects, risks, and consequences of vaping cannabis and the co-use of nicotine and cannabis.
This lesson helps learners reflect on why young people may turn to cannabis and orients them toward choices they can make to take better care of themselves.
