A National Tobacco Cessation Quit Line - 1800 227787 - is available on all days from 9 am to 9 pm for all those seeking support to quit the butt.
The toll-free Quit Line, launched last World No Tobacco Day, will provide free support and guidance to tobacco users to overcome their addiction and increase their chances of quitting successfully.
This Quit Line is designed to help tobacco users by answering their queries, formulating a personalised quit plan depending on their tobacco consumption pattern (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, SMSs, emails and hand deliveries.
Callers will receive tobacco cessation counselling in English, Hindi and other languages.
This free of charge service can be used by all tobacco users, friends and families of tobacco users and even healthcare practitioners seeking to provide tobacco cessation therapy for their patients.
To support the telephone counselling, callers wanting on-ground support will be referred to a local Tobacco Intervention Initiative (TII) centre of the Indian Dental Association (IDA). At each centre dentists trained in tobacco cessation will help tobacco users give up their addiction and improve their health. There are 500 TII centres across India.
Source: NWN News
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