Alaska Resources Hub

Resource hub for Alaska’s Tobacco Prevention and Control grantees

Learn about Commercial Tobacco and Vaping

How Much Are You Burning?

Discover how much money you could save from just one week up to ten years without smoking.
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Resources for Youth

Find educational tools for youth to understand risks of vaping and commercial tobacco use along with intervention and cessation programs specifically for teens.  

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Resources for Parents

Many parents want to talk to their kids about smoking but need help. Learn about the health effects of vaping and smoking and how to start a conversation with your child.

Live Vape Free Alaska

Live Vape Free is a program offered by the state of Alaska for parents, caregivers, and other adults concerned about vaping. The online learning program prepares adults for conversations with teens about vaping.
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Resources for Schools

Youth tobacco use and vaping is an issue in schools across Alaska. The Lung Association offers programs to help schools respond effectively to youth tobacco and vaping on campus and to help students quit all commercial tobacco use and vaping for good. We also provide training and technical assistance (TA) to help schools and districts review and update vaping and tobacco policies.


Supporting Students
  • Vape Free Schools Initiative Be a leader in supporting students affected by tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, offering clear guidance, education and cessation. 
Supporting Staff

Schools and districts want all staff to be tobacco and nicotine free and may want to share resources. 

  • How to Help People Quit Free, one-hour online course to enhance understanding of tobacco cessation, behavior change, and the interventions and treatment needed to help people quit for good. 
  • Alaska Tobacco Quit Line  Free to Alaskans and offers access to free telephone, web and text-based support to quit tobacco. You can call as often as you like and are eligible to receive four pro-active support calls from a quit coach. Alaska’s Tobacco Quit Line offers free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) to all Alaskans who enroll in the program. NRT is available even if you are uninsured or without coverage from your health plan. To enroll, call Alaska’s Tobacco Quit Line at 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669), text READY to 34191, or visit the link above.
School Vaping and Tobacco Policy Resources

Many schools and districts find that their tobacco policies need review and could potentially benefit from updating. The Lung Association can provide detailed policy and student handbook analysis and recommend updates to make any policy more complete and able to withstand future product changes and innovations. Listed below are some of the resources available to support schools and districts in achieving and maintaining tobacco free campuses.

  • Policy Change Resource Toolkit Customized resources to help schools and districts update their vaping and tobacco policies. Includes a policy change guide outlining a 6-step process to update a school tobacco policy along with a set of resources to help with each step in the process.
  • American Lung Association’s Campaign Guide More on how to update or create a comprehensive tobacco and nicotine free campus policy.

Healthcare Provider Resources

  • ACT to Address Youth Cessation Free, one-hour on-demand, online course that provides an overview for healthcare professionals, school personnel and community members working with youth on conducting brief interventions for youth who use tobacco. 
  • Ask, Advise, Refer to Quit Don’t Switch Utilizes updated tools and strategies for conducting an effective brief tobacco intervention with patients identified as tobacco users, including e-cigarettes. 
  • Lung Cancer Screening Resources  Lung cancer can be a challenging subject for your patients. These resources can help you and your patients better understand lung cancer screening.
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Tobacco & Lung Health Resources

The American Lung Association created mini-resource toolkits with different topics on tobacco and lung health. The topics range from lung cancer, pregnancy and tobacco, COPD awareness, to many more. The aim is to bring forth new topics and provide resources that grantees might find helpful. 


Smokefree Environments

Post-Secondary Education Environments

The CDC has estimated that 99% of adult cigarette smokers first start smoking before age 26 years and many smokers transition to regular, daily use during young adulthood colleges and universities represent an important venue for protecting students, faculty, staff members, and guests from secondhand smoke exposure through tobacco control policies.

Smokefree Outdoor Spaces

Studies have also found that levels of secondhand smoke exposure outdoors can reach levels recognized as hazardous, depending on direction and amount of wind, number and proximity of smokers, and enclosures such as walls or roofs. Smokefree policies help individuals who are trying to quit, by eliminating the sight and smell of smoke. As with all smokefree policies, these measures send a message to children and youth that tobacco use is not an acceptable behavior or a norm in the community.

Join Smokefree Spaces Community of Practice

Uses best practices to create smokefree spaces throughout the State so that Alaskans can breathe clean air while enjoying everyday activities in their community. This group will evaluate and strengthen current policies while strategizing ways to educate community members about the benefits of smokefree spaces, creating new partnerships that lead to an increased number of policies in outdoor recreational areas, multi-unit housing, outdoor events, and many more environments.

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TPC Grantees

Coalition Resources

Coalitions contribute significantly to building momentum for change in communities working on tobacco prevention. Coalitions can look different in many communities but usually are composed of diverse and inclusive members who bring together people and organizations with wide-ranging skills and knowledge.

Commercial Tobacco Use in Communities

Tools for Specific Groups

Pregnancy

Overall, cigarette use during pregnancy by Alaska mothers has decreased significantly from 22 percent in 1996 to 14 percent in 2013. This reduction is due in large part to a decrease in smoking—from 18 percent to 8 percent—among non-Native women. However, prenatal smoking prevalence among Alaska Native women, at 31 percent in 2013, has not changed significantly.
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Cessation

Behavioral Health and Tobacco Use Factsheet

41% of Alaska Tobacco Quitline callers report having at least 1 behavioral health condition. May want to quit but face additional challenges and benefit from extra help. This factsheet created by the State of Alaska Tobacco Prevention and Control Program addresses how providers can help improve health outcomes for this population.
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More Information

For more resources and assistance, reach out to the American Lung Association’s youth tobacco and policy team at [email protected].
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Page last updated: August 7, 2024

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