The West Virginia Division of Tobacco Prevention (WVDTP) is the lead state agency for comprehensive tobacco prevention, cessation, and control. The WVDTP saves lives and money by preventing and reducing tobacco use in West Virginia - the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
United States Surgeon General's Report: Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities November 2024
2024-sgr-tobacco-related-health-disparities-exec-summary.pdf
Tobacco Treatment Training Program
The Certified Tobacco Treatment Training Program (CTTTP) fills a need in West Virginia, which has one of the highest tobacco use rates in the nation. The goal is to train healthcare providers to treat tobacco use disorder with evidence-based tobacco cessation strategies.
Tobacco Treatment Specialists work in a variety of settings including hospitals, community health centers, medical and dental practices, educational settings, social service agencies, treatment centers, quit lines, mental health centers. In addition to providing treatment, specialists educate others about tobacco dependence treatments.
West Virginia University School of Dentistry’s Certified Tobacco Treatment Training Program is an online, self-paced course for professionals in the fields of education, dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and social work.
For more information about the WVU, School of Dentistry's Certified Tobacco Treatment Program please click here
NEW TRAINING OPPORTUNITY IN JANUARY 2025
The WV DHHR Division of Tobacco Prevention is providing funding for 64 West Virginia healthcare providers or educators that will compensate the $750 registration fee for the WVU School of Dentistry’s Certified Tobacco Treatment Training Program.
If you are interested in certification as a tobacco treatment specialist to increase your tobacco treatment knowledge, skill, and confidence provide a brief personal statement (<200 words) with your interest & plan for tobacco cessation within West Virginia. Upon successful completion of the online, self-paced training program you will receive a minimum of 24 continuing education hours (varies for profession) and a tobacco treatment specialist certificate.
Complete the Scholarship Application Online
NEW VAPE SHOP ORDINANCES
City Of Huntington Zoning Ordinance Regarding Vape Shops
City of Morgantown Zoning Ordinance Regarding Vape Shops
Putnam County Ordinance Regarding Vape Shops
The Division of Tobacco Prevention (DTP) works with local coalitions, community agencies, and state and national partners to implement and evaluate effective tobacco prevention and cessation activities that strive to:
- eliminate secondhand tobacco smoke
- promote quitting among adults and youth,
- prevent youth tobacco use initiation, including vaping and other electronic delivery devices
- identify and eliminate disparities among populations.
For more information on the TIPS campaign click here
Youth Vaping is an epidemic in West Virginia and across the US. Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) are also known as “e-cigarettes,” “e-cigs,” “vapes,” or “vape pens.” They use a nicotine liquid, also called e-liquid or e-juice, or fluid-filled pods. Many are fruit or candy flavored. E-cigarettes were developed as a safer
alternative to combustible cigarettes, but they have quickly become an on-ramp for nicotine addiction for young people. The CDC has warned that e-cigarettes are not safe for youth, young adults, pregnant women, or non-smoking adults.
The American Lung Association in collaboration with the Division of Tobacco Prevention offers information on West Virginia’s Comprehensive Approach to
Ending the Youth Vaping Epidemic. To view please click here.
Catch My Breath is a
peer-led teaching approach that empowers students with the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions about e-cigarettes and resist social pressures to vape. Informed by tobacco prevention researchers and practitioners, years of real world implementation, and a youth advisory board, it is the only school-based vaping prevention program proven to reduce the likelihood of vaping among youth.