Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of disease and death in Alaska. During each year, smoking alone is linked to an estimated 700 deaths and $575 million in health care costs in Alaska. (Source: Alaska DHSS website)
Alaskan based resources:
Teen Cessation Support
The Resource Basket is not a direct service provider. We are here to provide helpful links to connect parents, families, caregivers and the community at large with the resources needed to protect Alaska Native youth and strengthen Alaska’s tribal communities.
In an effort to have a tobacco-free Alaska, RurAL CAP staff support a statewide youth advocacy coalition called the Youth Encouraging Alaskans’ Health (YEAH) Teen Ambassadors. This group of youth leaders from across the state meet regularly using teleconferences, emails and social media to develop their work around tobacco prevention and advocacy at the local and statewide levels. Research has shown that engaging young people in tobacco control issues is a strategy in changing social norms and preventing the initiation of tobacco use.
Teen Ambassadors: Middle and high school aged student opportunities
ATCA Teen Ambassadors strive to educate the community on the impacts of tobacco, and supports tobacco free areas. We empower youth to make a difference in their communities. Our coalition connects everyone toward the same cause: to make Alaska tobacco free.
Helping Alaskans quit
The Tobacco Prevention and Control (TPC) Program mission is to coordinate and promote activities that help all Alaskans to live healthy and tobacco-free lives.
Tobacco Prevention Program – Support Provided
It’s Free. It’s Confidential. And it works.
Call the Quit Line for your quit kit and check out these resources below for more support! Quit materials and community resources categorized by AK Native 5 major regions.
Extra Quit Line Resources
Training and technical assistance to tobacco prevention programs
ANTHC’s Tobacco Prevention and Control program works to reduce tobacco use among Alaska Native people.
The Resource Basket
This is a RurAL CAP affiliated program.