On the occasion of 'World No Tobacco' day, Nicorette, manufacture of tobacco cessation products, launched 'National Tobacco Cessation Quit Line'. A gift to the entire nation, the helpline is toll-free.
What's the proof?
Following, are the important points that we need to know:-
What is it?
A Quitline for all those who are serious about their lives and want to quit Tobacco. This quitline is designed to help tobacco users by answering their queries, formulating a personalised quit plan depending on their tobacco consumption pat-tern (cigarettes, beedis and other forms of chewing tobacco) and supporting them through the entire 12 week journey of quitting tobacco through a combination of phone calls, text messages, emails and hand deliveries.
Helipline Number (Toll-free):- 1800 227787
When?
The national quitline can be reached daily from 9 am to 9 pm from May 31 onwards.
Any charges?
No, absolutely free of charge!
Language, a barrier?
No, Callers will receive tobacco cessation counselling in English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali.
Who can use?
All tobacco users, friends and families of tobacco users and even healthcare practitioners seeking to provide tobacco cessation therapy for their patients.
Media of Help!
To support the telephone counselling, callers wanting on-ground support will be referred to a local Tobacco Intervention Initiative (TII) center of the Indian Dental Association (IDA). At each center, dentists trained
in tobacco cessation will help tobacco users give up their addiction and improve their health. Currently there are 500 TII centers across India.
o Studies show that proactive telephone counselling is an effective intervention for tobacco cessation and achieves 56 per cent increase in quit rates as compared to self-help, since a large number of tobacco users want to quit but do not know how to do it effectively. The World Health Organisation recommends quitlines as an essential part of any tobacco-control-effort since they are easily accessible, cost-effective and proven
tools to increase the quit suc-cess rate.
o The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (2009-2010) shows that one third of all adults in India use tobacco in some form or the other and over 35 per cent of them want to quit this habit. However, inaccessibility to treatment, lack of support and low levels of awareness has been the major hindrances in determining
low success rates.
How it works?
Nicorette is a stop-tobacco quit aid in the form of a sugar-free nicotine gum. It helps to reduce nicotine cravings that make quitting tobacco so hard. Nicorette, based on the principal of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT), is nicotine bound to a sugarless chewing gum base. It provides therapeutic (clean) nicotine slowly and in lesser quantities than what a cigarette or chewing tobacco pro-vides but also just enough to
satisfy the cravings. Unlike chewing tobacco and cigarette smoke, it delivers nicotine which is devoid of any
harmful chemicals like tar, irritants, carbon monoxide and nitrosamines, and hence is safer.
So, what are you (tobacco users) waiting for? Just call and do yourself and others some good!
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