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Curriculums to Address Vaping Nicotine & Prescription Drug Misuse

Our free digital courses offer modern approaches to guide teachers and educate youth about the dangers associated with e-cigarette use and with misusing prescription medications, including counterfeit drugs containing fentanyl.

Through real-world scenarios delivered in truth’s authentic peer-to-peer youth voice, students are empowered to make healthy and informed choices and help others do the same.

Corporate tobacco cessation programs

What We Do

Truth Initiative conducts groundbreaking research and policy studies, gives young people the facts about smoking, vaping, nicotine and the commercial tobacco industry, engages individuals and groups to make change in their communities, innovates new ways to end tobacco use, and joins forces with collaborators committed to making tobacco use and nicotine addiction a thing of the past. In short: we seek, speak, and spread the truth about tobacco smoking, vaping and nicotine.

Alex Parks

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Christy Hartsell

Christy Hartsell is responsible for engaging companies to help amplify the organization’s work and provide funding to support the mission, as the vice presid

This is Quitting

The first-of-its-kind program to help young people quit vaping, This is Quitting has helped over 700,000 youth and young adults on their journey to quit vaping. Learn more about how it works and the additional resources available for parents of young vapers and for adults who want to quit.

Teens and young adults can join for free by texting DITCHVAPE to 88709

Parents, educators, and other interested parties can download or order printed flyers and palm cards with information about enrolling in the program here.

Lisa A. Watkins

Lisa Watkins brings two decades of nonprofit accounting experience to her work at Truth Initiative.

Tia Taffer

Tia Taffer is responsible for managing and creating strategies for web content, experiential marketing and activism within the marketing department.

RG Logan

RG Logan leads efforts to develop and define the Truth Initiative brand.

Megan Jacobs

As the Vice President of product for the Innovations center at Truth Initiative, Jacobs brings an empathic, user-centered approach to product design that is

Ted Feldman

As a member of the legal team at Truth Initiative®, Ted Feldman plays a lead role negotiating relationships and transactions between the organization and its

Elizabeth C. Hair

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