Healthy At Home - Quitting tobacco

India

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New Delhi, May 30, 2020 :

Why should you quit smoking and how can you do it?

Smokers have a higher risk of getting coronavirus because they are constantly putting their hands to their lips.

And then, if they get coronavirus, they run a greater risk of getting a severe case because their lung function is impaired.

Quit today to reduce these risks and start living a healthier life.

Quick tips to curb your cravings:

Delay: Delay as long as you can before giving in to your urge.
Deep breathing: Take 10 deep breaths to relax yourself from within until the urge passes.
Drink water: Drinking water is a healthy alternative to sticking a cigarette in your mouth.
Do something else to distract yourself: Take a shower, read, go for a walk, listen to music!

There are many resources within your own community. Find out if your healthcare providers, Quit line Counsellors, mCessation programmes are available to support you in your journey to quit.

This self-help material was developed based on WHO Capacity Building Training Package 4 entitled

Strengthening health systems for treating tobacco dependence in primary care :

Its target audience are tobacco users. It aims to give advice and information to improve tobacco user’ readiness to quit and to help those who are ready to quit to plan a quit attempt. The content of this self-help material includes:

How to get ready to quit (for tobacco users not ready to quit);
How to plan and make quit attempts (for tobacco users ready to quit);
Local tobacco cessation support resources.

Treatment of tobacco use and dependence is mandated in Article 14 of the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) as a key component of comprehensive tobacco control strategy. Tobacco dependence treatment is also recommended by WHO as part of a comprehensive package of essential services for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in primary care in accordance to the revised draft of the WHO Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs (2013-2020).

This training package aims to assist countries in taking one of their first steps towards providing comprehensive tobacco dependence treatment to all tobacco users by integrating brief tobacco interventions (brief advice) into primary care. WHO recommends that WHO Member States use this capacity-building and training tool to improve the delivery of brief tobacco interventions in primary care as part of their efforts to implement the WHO FCTC Article 14 guidelines and the WHO Global NCDs Action Plan.

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