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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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TRIBAL TOBACCO ADVOCACY TOOLKIT

The purpose of the Toolkit is to support tribes and tribal allies with a framework for public health

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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.

Young Adults
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More Good years

Quitting is the difference between quality time with your family and missing out to catch your breath. Enjoy your years really living. Leave tobacco in the past, and live more good years.

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Control Tobacco

Access tools for educators, coalitions and more. Explore our media library, order educational or advocacy supplies and more.

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Young Adults

Tobacco products are everywhere, but you can live a better life without them.

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Consider The Risks
Bad Breath
Gum Disease
Tooth Loss
Shortness of Breath
High Cancer Risk
High Risk of lung Disease
Anxiety
Depression
Irritability
Increased Stress
Increased Risk of Future Addiction to Other Substances
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.
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MENTAL HEALTH & MANAGING STRESS

Tobacco use doesn't just affect your physical body. It can also lead to chronic mental health problems.

Dealing with the stress of quitting

Many tobacco users claim that they continue to smoke, vape or chew for stress relief. But did you know that tobacco is actually proven to cause more stress? 

Smoking only provides a short-term relief that doesn't address the root of your stress. In fact, the only stress you're relieving is caused by withdrawals from the tobacco itself.

Try to find a stress management technique that works for you and isn't damaging to your health. What works for someone else may not be what works for your addiction.

Here are a just few alternative suggestions from the American Heart Association:
  • Go for a walk, run or bike ride.
  • Take a break to spend time with a loved one or pet.
  • Spend time on something you're passionate about.
  • Remember that, if it isn't urgent, you can sleep on it and face it the following day.
  • Practice meditation or yoga.
  • Listen to music or a podcast. 
  • Read.
  • Work out.

Mental Health & Managing Stress

Tobacco use doesn't just affect your physical body. It can also lead to chronic mental health problems.

Many tobacco users claim that they continue to smoke, vape or chew for stress relief. But did you know that tobacco is actually proven to cause more stress? 

Smoking only provides a short-term relief that doesn't address the root of your stress. In fact, the only stress you're relieving is caused by withdrawals from the tobacco itself.

Try to find a stress management technique that works for you and isn't damaging to your health. What works for someone else may not be what works for your addiction. Here are a just few alternative suggestions from the American Heart Association:

  • Go for a walk, run or bike ride.
  • Take a break to spend time with a loved one or pet.
  • Spend time on something you're passionate about.
  • Remember that, if it isn't urgent, you can sleep on it and face it the following day.
  • Practice meditation or yoga.
  • Listen to music or a podcast. 
  • Read.
  • Work out.
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Vape & Hookah


Despite many tobacco users thinking that vaping or hookah is a less harmful alternative to traditional smoking, both vaping and hookah are just as dangerous and share most of the same health risks as smoking.

For those who use tobacco, the only way to reduce health risks is to quit using all types of tobacco products — including vaping and hookah.

Read about the different generations of e-cigarettes, and learn more about the health risks of vaping.


Hookah, like vaping, comes in many flavors and is referred to by many names, including: 

  • Hookah
  • Hubble-bubble
  • Narghile
  • Argileh
  • Shisha
  • Goza

Secondhand & Thirdhand Smoke

When you choose to use tobacco products or even vapes that are nicotine-free, you're choosing to put more than just yourself at risk. When you exhale smoke from a cigarette or aerosol vapor from an e-cigarette, you're sending dangerous toxins into the air, exposing other people and even pets to secondhand smoke. Those harmful chemicals then settle and linger on surfaces, floors, furniture and more. Even though they didn't inhale the toxins themselves, anyone exposed to secondhand or thirdhand smoke is at risk just like the user.
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