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RCORP - Rural Center of Excellence on SUD Prevention

Digital Therapeutics and Games for Health

RITch Vaping

RITch Vaping is an avatar-based, interactive therapy platform. Start lessons with your avatar that bring you through a variety of methods to help with vaping addiction. The platform has customizable avatars for teens and adults, with hundreds of unlockable accessories.

Click the play button to start RITch Vaping

Press the play button to open RITch Vaping


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Break The Vape

Break the Vape is a collection of games to address nicotine cravings, developed especially for teens. We recommend playing for 15 minutes to help overcome the urge to use nicotine.

Click the play button to play Break the Vape


Play on the app

Play on the app

Break the Vape Games

Crave Smash

Tap the monster to make them smaller. Over time the monster will gain back health and grow in size. Tap as fast as you can until the monster has disappeared, then you win!

Not So Tasty

Click on a fruit and drag to nearby, similar fruit to form a fruit chain. Lift up once 2 or more fruits have been chained together to clear them off the board. Secret tiles will be revealed in the background when a fruit chain is matched overtop of them. Once all parts of each secret tile have been revealed from matches, you win!

Match and Catch

Tap cards to flip them over. Once two cards are flipped over, they are checked to make sure they match. If they do not match, they are flipped back over. Once all cards are flipped over in matching pairs, you win!

Puff Dodge

Hazardous items will fly in from the sides of the screen that you can swipe across the screen to destroy. Destroy the items to protect your lungs at the bottom of the screen. Once 25 items are destroyed, you win!

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Subject Matter Expert

Caroline Easton, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Academic Division Chief in Addiction Psychiatry, and Director of Digital Therapeutics, University of Rochester Medicine

This HRSA RCORP RCOE program is supported by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) of the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) as part of an award of $3.33M in the current year with 0% financed with non-governmental sources.

The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by HRSA, HHS or the US Government.

As the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)-Rural Center of Excellence on SUD Prevention, UR Medicine Recovery Center of Excellence provides access to a wide range of resources on relevant topics. Inclusion in this document does not imply endorsement of, or agreement with, the contents by UR Medicine Recovery Center of Excellence or HRSA.  

© Copyright 2026 University of Rochester Medical Center

This HRSA RCORP RCOE program is supported by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) of the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) as part of an award of $3.33M in the current year with 0% financed with non-governmental sources.

The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by HRSA, HHS or the US Government.

As the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)-Rural Center of Excellence on SUD Prevention, UR Medicine Recovery Center of Excellence provides access to a wide range of resources on relevant topics. Inclusion in this document does not imply endorsement of, or agreement with, the contents by UR Medicine Recovery Center of Excellence or HRSA.  

© Copyright 2026 University of Rochester Medical Center

This HRSA RCORP RCOE program is supported by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) of the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) as part of an award of $3.33M in the current year with 0% financed with non-governmental sources.

The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by HRSA, HHS or the US Government.

As the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)-Rural Center of Excellence on SUD Prevention, UR Medicine Recovery Center of Excellence provides access to a wide range of resources on relevant topics. Inclusion in this document does not imply endorsement of, or agreement with, the contents by UR Medicine Recovery Center of Excellence or HRSA.  

© Copyright 2026 University of Rochester Medical Center