Tobacco cessation clinic
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Tobacco Cessation Clinic, is an initiative by The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health, Government of India. Tobacco cessation activities formally begun with starting of 13 Tobacco Cessation Clinics in Anand, Bhopal, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cuttack, Delhi (2), Goa, Jaipur, Lucknow, Mumbai, and Patna in 2002. Tobacco cessation clinics were renamed as Tobacco cessation center in 2005. Five more Tobacco Cessation Centers were established in Mizoram, Guwahati, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Trivandrum which makes the total number as 18 all over India.
The services offered at the clinic includes, individual intervention in the form of Behavioural Counselling, Medication, and Nicotine replacement therapy. At large, the Centres also intend to create awareness among the general public about the ill effects of tobacco, and about tobacco cessation through awareness programs, exhibitions, preparation of information booklets/manuals aimed at specific populations (e.g.: consumers of tobacco/clinicians/general public), training programs on tobacco cessation for various professionals etc.
Center Place State Shree Krishna hospital and PSM college Anand Gujarat National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) Bangalore Karnataka Jawaharlal Nehru Cancer Hospital & Research Center Bhopal Madhya Pradesh PGIMER Chandigarh Chandigarh Cancer Institute (Adyar Cancer Institute) Chennai Tamil Nadu A.H. Regional Cancer Centre Cuttack Orissa Institute of Human Behaviour & Allied Sciences (IHBAS) Dilshad Garden Delhi Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute University Of Delhi Delhi Vaidya Hospital Panaji Goa Bhagwan Mahaveer Cancer Hospital & Research Center Jaipur Rajasthan King George’s Medical College Lucknow Uttar Pradesh Tata Memorial Hospital Mumbai Maharashtra Indira Gandhi Institute of Cardiology Patna Bihar Directorate of Hospital and Medical Education Aiswal Mizoram Dr. Bhubaneswar Borooh Cancer Institute
( Regional Institute for Treatment and Research)
Guwahati Assam MNJ institute of Oncology and Regional Cancer Center Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute Kolkatta West Bengal Regional Cancer Center Thiruvananthapuram Kerala
The Tobacco Cessation Clinic Resource Center, (TCCRC) which is functioning in the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, (NIMHANS), Bangalore, is the National Coordinating center for all the TCCs.
The center in Bangalore, runs an out patient Clinic, twice in a week (on Saturdays and Mondays, in the De-addiction OP section of the NIMHANS. Tobacco Cessation Center, provides professional support to many who are in the clutches of Tobacco to start a new life. Help is available in the form of behavioral counseling, Nicotine replacement therapy, and medicines which helps, the individual to reduce the craving for Nicotine.
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1. Cancer Institute (Adyar Cancer Institute), Chennai [1]
2. National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore [2]
3. University Of Delhi, Delhi [3]
4. Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi [4]
5. Regional Cancer Center, Thiruvananthapuram [5]
6. Jawaharlal Nehru Cancer Hospital and Research centre idgah hills , Bhopal MP www.jnch.nic.in
7. Kerala Quit Smoking Institute [6]
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