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More than 20 lakh Indians enrolled in quit tobacco initiative, says WHO
July 24 , 2017
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- The WHO has said more than 20 lakh people enrolled themselves in the first year of a quit- tobacco initiative of the Indian government. Considering the high interest in quitting among tobacco users, the government launched a bilingual country wide programme in January 2016, and a national toll-free quitline telephone number. Over a year more than 20 lakh people have registered their names.
- An evaluation by the health ministry at the end of the programme’s first year, covering over 12,000 registered users, demonstrated an average quit rate of about 7% among both smokers and smokeless tobacco users.
- One way to expand access is to use mobile technology to provide personalised tobacco cessation advice through text messaging. Such method has proved to be efficient and cost-effective.
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