smokeSCREEN: A smoking and vaping prevention videogame

on a mission to prevent youth smoking and vaping

Special Notice: FREE full access to smokeSCREEN for teens and schools affected by COVID-19.

Click here to request FREE logins for your students/children to play smokeSCREEN, which focuses on smoking and vaping prevention. smokeSCREEN is web-based and can be played on any available device including a computer or tablet, and is also available for FREE download from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.

The play2PREVENT Lab at the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games has received funding from the NIH and the FDA and generous support from the CVS Health Foundation to advance a shared mission to prevent smoking and vaping in youth through the videogame smokeSCREEN:

About THE GAME 

A collaboration between the play2PREVENT Lab, the NIH/FDA-funded Yale and USC Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS), 1st Playable Productions, Schell Games this project expanded on earlier development and evaluation of the videogame intervention, PlayForward: smokeSCREEN with the goal of collecting in-game and standardized data on adolescents’ attitudes, perceptions, and knowledge about cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and other tobacco products.

smokeSCREEN addresses the range of challenges that young teens face, with a dedicated focus on youth decision-making about smoking and vaping (conventional cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, flavored tobacco products), and includes strategies for both smoking prevention and cessation.

Results from our published pilot study suggest that brief exposure to smokeSCREEN has a promising effect on preventing risk for adolescent smoking and vaping. The videogame changed risk perception, and beliefs about e-cigarettes and other tobacco products.

A full-scale evaluation study, with support from the CVS Health Foundation and conducted in four states with 560 adolescents, demonstrated a significant impact on beliefs and knowledge about electronic cigarettes and vaping, and is well accepted by adolescents.

smokeSCREEN is developed for ages 10-16, the game is available now to users with authorized logins and through both of the App Stores.

Based on research and development conducted at the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games with the generous support of CVS Health and CVS Health Foundation