It went from bad to worse, we were losing him to this nicotine addiction, with him admitting to being addicted to the rush and high of the nicotine hit from the juul.

His personality changed rapidly. Within 2 months of his sophomore year his grades plummeted and a kid who had been obedient and sweet became defiant, rebellious, no longer cared about getting in trouble with teachers and principals, and became increasingly sneaky, just to get his flavored nicotine hit.

We pulled him, put him in online school which he hated, enrolled in family therapy to address this alarming change in behavior and to attempt to address this addiction, as well as the downslide in his grades.

We enrolled him in a small private school. He got caught only once and threatened with expulsion, put on probation, ordered to write a paper on what’s in vapes, the physical damage of it, and a smoking cessation program, worked to change his attitude towards vaping completely around. He’s admitted that learning about the toxic chemicals and substances in the juul and listening to adults in Nicotine Anonymous talk about their enslavement to nicotine, has caused vaping to be repulsive to him now.

As a result of pulling him rom Anderson, he has thrived in sports at this school so the threat of expulsion was effective. He also said that when he vaped he felt nauseous after.

He leaned that Marlboro has bought 30% of the juul company , intent on taking advantage of this teen epidemic and I’m sure on keeping its grip on these teens for long term nicotine sales. Please please help AHS, it is an Epidemic and is spreading to ALL schools.