Teens Using Nicotine

Over the summer, we worked with our teen to shake off a nicotine addiction that he picked up in the bathrooms of his middle school. He's now been at Berkeley High three days and he tells me that he's already vaping again because every time he goes to the bathroom there are kids in there offering him a hit and he is having a hard time saying "no." He thinks he doesn't need help and he can handle this, but it seems clear to me that he's not handling it well at all. On the other hand, it's been three days and maybe he can reset. Yesterday we came up with a reasonably high value reward if he can get through the week without vaping. He wasn't ready to sign up for Ditch Vape/This is quitting this morning but I will probably start there unless the BPN community has better starting points.

I really would like to see the school do their part to make it a little harder for him to access controlled substances, including nicotine, at school.

My question is this:

Have any other parents have tried to get the administration to do anything about keeping the bathrooms safe for kids who are walking that recovery line? He's already being offered more serious drugs in the bathrooms (codeine?!?) and he's a kid who really really really wants to be cool and fit in. He's going to have a very hard time staying clean if alternatives are constantly in his face.

Are there things the school used to do that parents could ask them to bring back? Are there any schools that handle bathroom drug use effectively?

Have any of you tried to help your teen get off nicotine? She's been vaping and now started cigarettes. She says she wants to stop. I found a man who does hypnotherapy and says he has a 90% success rate. It's pretty expensive but if it were true, it would be worth it. Have any of you tried hypnosis for quitting smoking? He did say she has to want to stop and be willing to pay for part of the treatment, so she has "skin in the game". I'm not sure if she is going to go for that.  He also said, if someone doesn't want to stop, nothing you can do can make them, which I agree with. 

Please weigh in with your thoughts, experiences, etc..

Thank you!!

My college age daughter (almost 21) is vaping regularly. A couple years ago while helping her move into a new apartment at college, a roommate mentioned that she wanted to try a Juul.  I brought up to both girls "you really need to be careful because nicotine is extremely addictive and bad for one's health and you don't want to become addicted". Their response was "we won't", as though addiction was some intellectual decision that one would make. Fast forward two years - while out visiting my daughter this past fall while she was having a rough semester because she got mononucleosis, I noticed a Juul pod on the ground right outside the front door. I picked it up and made a comment "whose Juul pod?", to which she replied that it was her roommate's (different roommate).  Then she confesses that she got mono from the roommate because she shared her Juul.  While at home during vacations I see now signs of a Juul in her possession. I called her out on it once, but it backfired, with (I presume) her reasoning was that if I know she vaping then she is free to have the device out and and in front of me, although I never see vapor or smell smoke. I talked to her a couple times about concerns of addiction to nicotine, to which she replied "But I enjoy it; it makes me feel good". So at this point I feel there is nothing I can do. And I understand because I grew up with parents who smoked, and I also smoked in high school and some of college, but I eventually quit because of health effects and social unacceptability.  But vaping is so unobtrusive that I don't know what external factors would influence someone to quit, especially since it seems that vaping is ubiquitous in this generation of kids and they don't recognize the negative health (and financial?) effects and "they enjoy it". Anyone else having to deal with this and what have you done or said to your son or daughter?