Educators
Empower students to Be Vape Free with standards-aligned, no-cost resources
Access the Resources
We invite you to explore CATCH My Breath, an evidence-based nicotine vaping prevention program with impact. Get started today by signing up for the CATCH My Breath Core Program Bundle, available for elementary school and middle school educators. Supplementary lesson bundles are designed to be interdisciplinary and can be incorporated into everyday classroom curriculum. High School resources are available at CATCH.org.
Implementation Training
Looking for tips on program implementation best practices? We’ve got you covered. Get the latest on the youth vaping epidemic, e-cigarette laws and policies, plus a distance learning guide to prepare you to deliver the CATCH My Breath program in any educational setting.
Elementary School
Introduction to the Risks of E-Cigarettes and Vaping
In this core bundle, students will identify the health risks of e-cigarette use, learn about the hazardous chemicals involved, analyze tobacco marketing tactics, and develop, practice, and demonstrate refusal skills. It is recommended that all schools deliver this core bundle as a minimum and supplement as desired with the additional bundles below.
Submit the form to gain immediate access to the CATCH My Breath core program content.
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Risks of E-Cigarettes
In the Supplemental Science Bundle, students will dive into important questions such as, “what parts of the brain and body are affected by e-cigarette use” and “what harmful and toxic chemicals can be found in e-cigarettes.”
E-Cigarette Laws & My Community
In the Supplemental Humanities Bundle, students will explore how states are addressing the vaping crisis through legislation around the sale, purchase, and use of e-cigarettes. Students will investigate the evolution of their state’s laws & the purposes behind enacting those laws.
Self-Paced Module Videos
Encourage your students to investigate the truth and consequences of vaping and e-cigarette use. View the videos together with your students using the standards-aligned lesson plans and educator guide or assign it for them to explore independently using the self-paced module.
Cotton Candy Sewer Juice: How Vaping Hurts Your Lungs
Elementary SchoolDuration: 2:03Middle School
Introduction to the Risks of E-Cigarettes and Vaping
In this core bundle, students will identify the health risks of e-cigarette use, learn about the hazardous chemicals involved, analyze tobacco marketing tactics, and develop, practice, and demonstrate refusals skills. It is recommended that all schools deliver this core bundle as a minimum and supplement as desired with the additional bundles.
Submit the form to gain immediate access to the CATCH My Breath core program content.
Sign up for immediate access to CATCH My Breath core program content
Vaping & Your Life: A Guide To Making Informed Choices
In this core bundle, students will identify the health risks of e-cigarette use, learn about the hazardous chemicals involved, develop, practice, and demonstrate refusals skills, and analyze tobacco marketing tactics to build anti-vaping posters. It is recommended that all schools deliver this core bundle as a minimum and supplement as desired with the additional bundles.
Submit the form to gain immediate access to the CATCH My Breath core program content.
Sign up for immediate access to CATCH My Breath core program content
Refuse to Lose: E-Cigarette Realities
In the Supplemental Science Bundle, students will learn that e-cigarettes produce aerosols composed of potentially harmful chemicals, including nicotine, and about the damage that nicotine can do to the brain and body.
Take Charge of your Health: The Truth About E-Cigarettes
In the Supplemental Humanities Bundle, students will investigate credible and non-credible sources of health information to learn how to identify valid sources of information in order to make healthy decisions for themselves.
Vaping Risks Revealed
In this self-paced module, students will explore the risks and consequences of vaping or using e-cigarettes.
High School
Fact or Fiction: The Truth About Vaping
In this core bundle, students will learn about the consequences of using e-cigarettes, identify the signs of addiction, learn how to offer and seek help, and make the decision to not use e-cigarettes now or in the future. It is recommended that all schools deliver this core bundle as a minimum and supplement as desired with the additional
bundles below.
Submit the form to gain immediate access to the CATCH My Breath core program content.
Sign up for immediate access to CATCH My Breath core program content
Inhaling Flavor
In this supplemental science bundle, students in grades 9-12 will investigate the science of taste and flavor, their correlation to vaping addiction, and the effects of e-cigarettes on the human body.
Policy Loopholes
In this supplemental humanities bundle, students in grades 9–12 will investigate the effects of healthcare policies, laws, and loopholes on public health.
Empowering Yourself and Others to Be Vape Free
In this self-paced module, students will learn how to empower themselves and others to stay vape free. They will discover how to be informed consumers and critical observers while using social media.
CVS Health Foundation Partnerships
In addition to Be Vape Free, the CVS Health Foundation is partnering with best-in-class organizations to deliver the first tobacco-free generation. Explore these partners’ engaging resources that help students quit smoking and vaping, and that help to ensure that those who haven’t started, never will.
With a focus on behavior change, education, health, well-being, and social intelligence, the smokeSCREEN Game delivers an effective intervention to promote healthy lives for youth and young adults.
smokeSCREENGame.org
For more than 20 years, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids has fought to protect children and save lives from the #1 cause of preventable death: tobacco use. These in-depth trainings help young leaders take their advocacy to the next level.
www.takingdowntobacco.org
Truth Initiative is America’s largest nonprofit public health organization dedicated to making tobacco use a thing of the past. Designed specifically for teens and young adults, This is Quitting is a free quit-vaping text message program that is one of the few resources available to young people.
www.truthinitiative.org
The American Lung Association is leading the way in helping all Americans breathe easier. We are America’s trusted source for lung health education, lung disease research, support, programs, services and advocacy. Access resources to help create tobacco-free schools.
www.lung.org/cvs
DoSomething.org is mobilizing young people in every US area code to sign up for a volunteer, social change, or civic action campaign to make real-world impact. The Hit We'll Take Campaign empowers young people to join the movement to make the next generation tobacco and vape-free.
www.dosomething.org
The Tobacco-Free Generation Campus Initiative provides generous grants to accelerate and expand the adoption and implementation of 100% smoke- and tobacco-free policies on college campuses across the nation.
www.tobaccofreecampus.org
Additional Resources
Find the latest resources from the foremost leaders in public health regarding e-cigarettes.
Be The First Initiative
Five years ago, CVS Health made the decision to stop selling cigarettes and tobacco products in all CVS Pharmacy locations in an effort to build an innovative health care company driven by a purpose — helping people on their path to better health. Since then, CVS Health and the CVS Health Foundation have launched a multi-year $50 million initiative called 'Be The First' to help create the first tobacco-free generation through advocacy, education, and healthy behavior programming.
www.cvshealth.com/BeTheFirst ›