Video Game Created in Connecticut to Combat Teen Vaping

"It's easy to get, we do find it happens in school," Darcie Doyon, principal at Joseph Melillo Middle School in East Haven, Conn., tells Fox 61.

"There was a period of time it even happened in classrooms, it's very easy to hide."

So Doyon and her staff turned to Yale researchers, who came up with a novel way to stop students from vaping: a virtual reality video game.

Only Invite, as it's being called, sends players through "difficult peer pressure situations" using a pair of virtual reality headsets and two controllers, reports the Hartford Courant.

The idea is to get students to say no to e-cigarettes before they start.

"It's oftentimes kids are the most excited about it," says Asher Marks, co-director of Yale's Technologies Center for Pediatrics.

"I think that excitement is kind of contagious."

The game will be rolled out at Joseph Melillo and other Connecticut middle schools this spring.

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