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You and Me N.I. Vape Free is a teacher's resource to assist with educating young people on the dangers of vaping.

It has been adapted specifically for Northern Ireland by Stanford University and Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke.

The programme provides age-appropriate lesson plans and resources for primary and post-primary schools, as well as youth settings.

Register for the programme and sign up for training below.

1. Full of Potential: Your Brain Nicotine Free By hearing and participating in this lesson, students will: Describe the brain functions, including the structures and pathways in the brain. Discuss the unique features of the adolescent brain and its vulnerability to addiction. Explain the ways the brain reacts to drugs including nicotine. Define addiction using the biopsychosocial model. Describe the role of nicotine and its addictive properties.
2. Healthy Body, Healthy You-th: Effects of E-cigarettes On The Body By hearing and participating in this lesson, students will: Be able to identify the ingredients in e-cigarettes. Be able to identify, categorize, list, and compare and contrast the health effects caused by e-cigarette use.
3. What a waste! Impact of Cigarettes and E-Cigarettes On The Environment By hearing and participating in this lesson, students will: Identify the ways cigarettes and e-cigarettes (including nicotine, non-nicotine, and cannabis) contribute to litter and harm the environment. Describe the different parts of a cigarette and e-cigarette that are toxic to the environment and why they are harmful. Explain proper disposal of e-cigarettes and cigarettes that protect the environment. Develop a health promotion message that addresses the impact of all tobacco products on the environment.
4. Don’t Be Played: How Tobacco Marketing Targets You-th By hearing and participating in this lesson, students will: Students will be able to recognize that the e-cigarette companies are using the same marketing tactics used for decades by the tobacco industry to grab the attention of new and young customers. Students will be able to identify implicit messaging used in nicotine e-cig marketing. Students will be able to recognize flavoured nicotine products as another marketing tactic to disguise the health harms of their products from existing and potential consumers. Students will be able to recognize and discuss the effects of nicotine e-cig industry targeting on youth and their communities.
5. Be Your Strength: Stress, Coping and Wellness By hearing and participating in this lesson, students will: Define what is stress. Identify triggers and causes of stress. Contrast healthy and unhealthy ways to cope with stress. Practice and apply strategies to manage stress. Practice ways to manage the stress of friends who vape (responding with compassion and empathy). Discover which individual strategy to reduce stress works best for them. Destigmatize mental health and substance use.

- Fidelma Carter, NICHS Director of Research, Policy and Prevention (Chair) 
- Jessica Perry, NICHS School Health Promotion Manager
- Una McHugh, NICHS Communications and Marketing Officer
- Professor Michael Shields, Emeritus Professor of Child Health (Queen's University Belfast) and retired Consultant Paediatrician (Respiratory Medicine)
- Dr Dara O’Donoghue, Consultant Paediatrician Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children/Senior Clinical Lecturer, Queen’s University, Belfast
- Dr Naomi Kirk, Royal College Paediatric and Child Health
- Barbara Maxwell, Lead Respiratory Nurse, Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children
- Dr Bonnie Halpern-Flesher, Professor of Paediatrics, Stanford University
- Holly Lung, Social Science Research Professional, Stanford University
- Gavin Gray, Curriculum Manager, CCEA
- Jane McAllister, Education Authority
- John Lyster, Head of Loughshore Education Centre
- Conal Baxter, NICHS Policy and Engagement Officer