{"id":15713,"date":"2019-10-11T09:23:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/?page_id=15713"},"modified":"2019-11-06T18:15:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T23:15:44","slug":"vaping-awareness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/vaping-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaping Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-43373c7570fdfef2a27dd56ca4286eba\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-43373c7570fdfef2a27dd56ca4286eba{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-43373c7570fdfef2a27dd56ca4286eba .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-43373c7570fdfef2a27dd56ca4286eba .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-43373c7570fdfef2a27dd56ca4286eba av-special-heading-h2  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  >Vaping Awareness<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-k1mn0zfh-10141002768af384e22adf8b90614821 '  ><div class='avia_textblock' ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Truth About Vaping Community Forum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"about:blank\" width=\"660\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X79QKrE8lEI\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6283 alignnone lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/PDF_IconRed_22x22.png\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/The-Truth-About-Vaping-PPT-Presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download The Truth About Vaping PPT Presentation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-k1mjaq9f-49578c5ffe4b0fa21b94ab9f1e8e6bfc '  ><div class='avia_textblock' ><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Resources:<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Teens and families seeking tobacco cessation programs can sign up for the Not On Tobacco (N-O-T) program. Not On Tobacco \u00a0(N-O-T) is a voluntary teen-centered cessation program from the American Lung Association inclusive in addressing all tobacco product use, including e-cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about American Lung Association\u2019s Youth Cessation Program Facilitator Training Here<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lung.org\/stop-smoking\/helping-teens-quit\/not-on-tobacco.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proven Teen Smoking and Vaping Cessation Program<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-23b3846cdd0fbd0e234720a594f6db24 hr-default  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-k1mjaq9f-49578c5ffe4b0fa21b94ab9f1e8e6bfc '  ><div class='avia_textblock' ><p><strong>Not My Family vaping forum focuses on health risks of vaping, how to talk to kids<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Alyson Shields | Video: Joy Holmes<\/p>\n<p>As more and more teens turn to vaping instead of traditional cigarettes, community parents have been wondering not only if their kids are picking up a habit, but if they could be in physical danger.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Brown, a Hall County school teacher with three teenage daughters, said she came out to the forum to get some concrete information on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to know more factual information and not just hearsay information, so that I was speaking from facts and not just opinion, and so my children can see and hear firsthand just what vaping can do to them.&#8221; She said her opinion on vaping didn&#8217;t change, but she felt like she had facts to support her stance now.<\/p>\n<p>Brown&#8217;s 18-year-old daughter Kinsley said she had already been exposed to vaping.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve tried it, I know a lot of people around me have, and it&#8217;s just something that&#8217;s been brought up around my generation,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Everyone does it in my generation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, she said the presentation did scare her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest thing I didn&#8217;t know was about the popcorn lung. I didn&#8217;t know it was a chemical, I thought it was just like the coils being burned,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Another thing I did not know was that people can just buy the cartridges off Amazon. A lot of kids at my school just show off the cartridges at school and during lunch&#8230; they think it&#8217;s the coolest thing in the world, but it&#8217;s hard to believe they don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s really in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the forum, Gainesville Police Chief Jay Parrish and Investigator Bryan Majors talked about what they&#8217;re seeing on the streets. Many vape cartridge brands use trademarked branding and characters, like candy companies or cartoons, and don&#8217;t fear repercussions of either copyright infringement or the potential effects of their product on teens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vape pens that we&#8217;re finding on the streets are in boxes that look like a cereal box,&#8221; said Parrish. &#8220;They have &#8216;Cheerios&#8217; written on it, they have &#8216;Lucky Charms&#8217; written on it; we saw some that had a knock-off of South Park. And those boxes are targeted, not towards the cigarette smoker to convert to vaping as a safer alternative, but to kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parrish said they&#8217;re seeing vape pens as more of a gateway drug than marijuana or traditional cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>University of Georgia Clinical Associate Professor Dr. Merrill Norton explained the medical dangers of vaping. He said the biggest risk is a disease commonly referred to as &#8220;popcorn lung,&#8221; bronchiolitis obliterans, which damages the smallest parts of your airwaves and is irreversible.<\/p>\n<p>Licensed Marriage and Family Counselor Adam Raulerson with Laurelwood explained why it was so important to connect as a family and push past the fear of the unknown with your child&#8217;s habits and activities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my work with families, we don&#8217;t ask questions, we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on with our youth&#8217;s lives because we&#8217;re afraid of what the answer might be,&#8221; said Raulerson. &#8220;Tonight, the focus was on vaping but it could be suicide, it could be heavy drug use, so I&#8217;ve had parents tell me, &#8216;I don&#8217;t want to know what&#8217;s going on because I don&#8217;t know what to do if they say yes.&#8217; So what we said is, &#8216;How do we take that fear and think about it differently?&#8217; Don&#8217;t let lie to us, keep us from what we need to do, so we avoid the conflict, let&#8217;s take that fear and I just took a simple acrostic: Forming Engaged, Authentic Relationships, just to think about it differently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Raulerson also introduced two communication techniques. One method focus on &#8220;I Language&#8221; and has the formula &#8220;I feel (emotion) when (event) because (thought about event). I want (desired outcome.) The other method was Active Listening, which encouraged parents and kids to pay attention, show you are listening, provide feedback, defer judgment and respond appropriately.<\/p>\n<p>The forum was sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/drugfreehall.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Partnership for a Drug-Free Hall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4141 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PDF_Icon_32x32.png\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2019-The-Truth-About-Vaping-Community-Forum.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 The Truth About Vaping Community Forum<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drugfreehall.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.drugfreehall.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/accesswdun.com\/article\/2019\/10\/840567\/not-my-family-vaping-forum-focuses-on-health-risks-of-vaping-how-to-talk-to-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read AccessNorthGa.com Article<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-s1gsap-5cc28c5e5c58d964a295636716369414 '  ><div class='avia_textblock' ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"about:blank\" width=\"840\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/365678472\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15713","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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