Smoking/Vaping/Tobacco Cessation
The Maine AAP is working with the Maine Public Health Association, the Maine Lung Association, Heart Association and Cancer Action Network, Tobacco Free Kids, MaineHealth's Center for Tobacco Independence, and others to reduce youth smoking, vaping, and use of other nicotine products. See the 2021 legislative priorities: MPHA Policy Overview for the 130th Legislative Session
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: Information on smoking and what you can do to help. Find out what states are doing to keep kids from smoking.
Center for Disease Control Tobacco Program
Maine CDC E-Cigarette Prevention Toolkit
Quit Your Way: Tobacco Cessation — Campaign Toolkit
Vaping: Don't Get Sucked In — Campaign Toolkit
Environmental Protection Agency Indoor Air Quality: This site offers a wealth of information on helping families establish a smoke-free home.
AAP Resources
Tobacco Control and Prevention
EQIPP Course - Focuses on youth nicotine/tobacco cessation and secondhand smoke exposure
History and Definitions of Vaping
5 Vaping Facts You Need to Know
Action Needed: E-cigarettes — Truth Initiative
Introduction, Conclusions, and Historical Background Relative to E-Cigarettes
Vaping: Risks and Side Effects
E-Cigarettes and Youth Toolkit for Partners: How You Can Help End the Epidemic
E-cigarettes Shaped Like USB Flash Drives
E-cigarettes use in the United States: reasons for use, perceptions, and effects on health
Know the Risks: E-Cigarettes & Young People
Outbreak of Lung Injury Associated with the Use of E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Products
Quick Facts on the Risks of E-cigarettes for Kids, Teens, and Young Adults
Surgeon General’s Advisory on E-cigarette Use Among Youth
Vaping-Induced Acute Lung Injury
Presentations on Vaping
Vaping: What Schools can do to Help Our Kids — Slides and recording
Quitting Resources for Families
Teens can text MAINE to 88709 to get help with quitting — a feature from This is Quitting. Maine teens were filmed as a part of this anti-vape movement.
Maine QuitLink: Quit Tobacco Your Way
Talk with Your Teen About E-cigarettes: A Tip Sheet for Parents
Handouts from Maine AAP
Tobacco Control and Prevention — National AAP
Maine Initiatives to Get Involved with
MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence
Vape Free Maine: Maine’s statewide anti-vaping campaign
Other Research for Providers
Pulmonary Illness Related to E-Cigarette Use in Illinois and Wisconsin
Imaging of Vaping-Associated Lung Disease
The 5As of Smoking/Vaping Cessation:
The 5 As Model: This evidence-based approach to tobacco cessation counseling helps providers assess patient readiness to quit.
Toolkit for delivering the 5A’s and 5R’s brief tobacco interventions in primary care