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Help Others Quit

Supporting a loved one through their quit journey makes all the difference. Find FREE tips, resources and guidance to help someone you care about break free from tobacco. Together, you can help them quit for good.

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Quit Today

South Dakota Quitline is a free Resource available to any state resident 13 or older. Choose from three ways to leave smoking, vaping, or chewing in the past. Quit, stay quit and breathe easy. 

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Youth & Young Adults

Children and young adults are especially vulnerable to loss of brain function as a result of vaping.
Even using e-cigarette devices without nicotine can cause damage. To protect your physical and mental health, it's time to quit.

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Tribal Toolkit

The Tribal Tobacco Advocacy Toolkit offers Indigenous communities culturally-informed resources and tools to support tobacco-free environments while honoring traditional practices.

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Questions about quitting tobacco or need support? Reach out anytime—we're here to help you or your community on the journey to quit smoking, vaping or chewing tobacco.

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Tobacco Prevention Activities

 

 

As you develop or strengthen your tobacco-free policy, use activities for a comprehensive approach to tobacco-use prevention. These activities described in this section have been proven to impact long-term, tobacco-control goals.

When activities like these are implemented consistently and correctly, they can really make a difference. Know that the work you are doing is helping to achieve real and lasting change in your community’s health.

Use these activities as a guide, and encourage students to personalize them. Some are classroom-based, and some can be done with the broader community. Every activity will help raise awareness and give both youth and adults a way to positively channel their outrage at what the tobacco industry is doing to addict and kill tens of thousands of Americans every year.

Things To Note:

  • Find out if there are local people or groups who would be willing to get involved in your efforts. Your local tobacco-prevention coalition, school health council, American Cancer Society chapter and concerned parents can help spread your message.
  • Be aware that different actions and messages influence different audiences.
  • Do you think your group can realistically pull it off ? If not, modify your plan to ensure success.

PLANNING YOUR ACTIVITY

There are several things to consider as you start planning for your activity or event. As you sit down with your group, answer these questions, and you’ll be well on your way to being event-planning pros.
What issue/cause are you tackling?
  • Tobacco-free schools
  • Tobacco industry marketing
  • Hollywood & influencer impact on tobacco use
Why are you tackling this issue?
  • Tobacco use is a problem at your school
  • You want teens in your community to know that the tobacco industry is targeting them ($24.2 million is spent each year in South Dakota alone)
  • You want to spread awareness of Hollywood and influencer relationships with the tobacco industry
What do you want to accomplish?
  • Increase awareness among your peers
  • Recruit more members to your group
  • Implement a tobacco-free campus policy for your school or school district
  • Strengthen an existing tobacco-free policy
  • Offer resources to help youth tobacco users quit
What are you going to do? See what other youth are doing across the state and in other parts of the country.

Access the Database

Search through our database of approved tobacco prevention activities.

Coloring Sheets 

Unwind and relax with our collection of coloring sheets.

More Good Years coloring sheet

Anti-Vaping coloring sheet

Honor Every Breath coloring sheet

Vaping...Yuck! Activity Sheet

Cost of Tobacco

What's the true cost of tobacco? Use these two handouts to determine the monetary value of tobacco use and the cost of true-life items.


Take Down Tobacco Day

Explain why you are tobacco-free.

Take Down Tobacco Day Activity Ideas

An activity sheet designed to brainstorm and organize creative initiatives for Take Down Tobacco Day, fostering impactful activities against tobacco use.

Maze

Help the students get to school safely and avoid dangerous situations.
 

Crossword

Test your knowledge of tobacco and smoking facts.

Word Search

Put your brain to the test and find all the tobacco-related terms.
 

Message Decode

Solve the math problems to uncover a secret message!

South Dakota Activity Booklet

Learn about the dangers of tobacco and nicotine while exploring fun activities, coloring pages, and more in this South Dakota-specific student booklet.

Find Seasonal Activities

Winter

New Year, New Habits Resolution Planning

This handout gives tobacco users a tool to hold themselves accountable for their quit. This is for all ages.

Happy Healthy Holidays Handout

Hey teachers, this handout is perfect for getting your students on the healthy track during holiday break. 

Through With Chew & Great American Spit Out Guide

This document encourages youth to avoid or quit smokeless tobacco. It provides basic ideas and resources for schools and communities to promote tobacco-free messages.

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Door-Decorating Contest

Get your entire school involved by challenging all the classrooms to decorate their doors with a tobacco/e-cigarette use prevention or cessation theme.

Kick the Can

In this activity, teens give a presentation on what is in smokeless tobacco. Using a blender and various basic ingredients, educate your audience on what smokeless tobacco contains and its dangers.

Graffiti Pledge Wall

Are you sick of Big Tobacco’s lies and manipulation? Get your thoughts out on paper… lots of paper! Create a long paper banner and cover it with anti-tobacco graffiti. This activity give students a fun opportunity to show support for your tobacco-free campus policy. Show your School Board that you want your school campus to be tobacco-free 24/7!

Earth Day: Keep in Green/Clean

Participants can show their creativity and paint a mural on a canvas to demonstrate tobacco use, cigarette litter and secondhand smoke on the planet.

Media Assets

Get the necessary details on media buying and placement in print and radio, and for your campaign against tobacco, learn about counter marketing and access free assets.
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