CATCH My Breath’s peer-led teaching approach empowers students with the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions about e-cigarettes and resist social pressures to vape.
E-cigarettes, including rechargeable batteries and the cartridges and bottles that contain e-liquids (liquid nicotine mixtures), can pose a threat to human health and to the environment if they are not disposed of properly.
The best way to protect yourself against vaping-related illness is to stop vaping. While findings from other states show that most people who got sick used THC-only products or both THC and nicotine products, some reported vaping only nicotine. Because the long-term health effects of vaping are unknown, and as information on the illness emerges, our best advice is to consider not using vaping products.
Decades of progress in fighting tobacco has saved the lives of countless Coloradans. Smoking rates in our state are at an all-time low. But far from retreating, the tobacco industry has shown deadly determination to hook new users – on new products.
This module provides an understanding of the inner workings of e-cigarettes, the content of the aerosols they produce, and thirdhand smoke. It's broken down into 5 units, each of which explore e-cigarettes in-depth.
