{"id":734088,"date":"2026-08-11T02:08:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734088\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T02:08:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:08:29","slug":"childrens-mental-health-is-severely-affected-by-the-use-of-vapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734088\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Mental Health is Severely Affected by the Use of Vapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/16348069932_dd15553604.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Children's Mental Health is Severely Affected by the Use of Vapes\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of https:\/\/vaping360.com\/<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Office of Children\u2019s Mental Health is alerting parents, educators, and policymakers to the dangers of vaping on youth mental health.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s vapes are extremely potent, which increases the risk of addiction no matter what is being smoked.<\/p>\n<p>This can severely affect young people, whose brains are still developing well into their 20s, making them at higher risk of addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Studies have shown that vaping often gives the user higher levels of anxiety, depression, and stress.<\/p>\n<p>Many users feel they need to vape to get rid of the stress caused by the vape, leading to an endless cycle and the user being unable to quit.<\/p>\n<p>There are also severe withdrawal symptoms, making it very hard to stop once addiction has set in.<\/p>\n<p>Many vaping products have bright colors or are disguised as smartphones, lip gloss, or pens, which are made to appeal to the younger generation and are easier to hide.<\/p>\n<p>The Nicotine Prevention Alliance of Central Wisconsin is now working with school districts to address youth vaping and establish interventions.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/children.wi.gov\/Pages\/Home.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">children.wi.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image courtesy of https:\/\/vaping360.com\/ The Wisconsin Office of Children\u2019s Mental Health is alerting parents, educators, and policymakers to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[17942,18909,10730,445,102,8929,105379,1906,6623,50,3879,105378,8332,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-734088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-births","tag-broadcasting","tag-events","tag-free","tag-health","tag-local","tag-manitowoc","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-news","tag-obituaries","tag-seehafer","tag-state","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}