Vaping and Mental Health Among Teenagers: When Two Worlds Collide

Abstract

With the rates of vaping among teenagers arise, the challenge of finding solutions to resolve early addictions and unhealthy habits has become increasingly prevalent. Alongside this new rise of teenagers vaping, mental illnesses have begun to become more prevalent in the most recent generations, and vaping could be potentially used as a coping mechanism. Finding reformed solutions to an ongoing epidemic will help agencies understand and know how to positively contribute and impact the mental health of teenagers. Continuing to utilize an outdated outreach method urging people to quit vaping eventually begins to lose validity and relatability to the target demographic. When pushing for reform in advocacy, it increases the possibility of resonating with teenagers than did prior.