A comprehensive guide of standard tobacco cessation approaches

ISBN-13: 9786139902385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 52 str.

Stuti S. Bhargava; Rahul R. Bhowate

Opis

This manual is a resource which can be used by dentists and clinicians and health science students who can provide brief as well as detailed counseling sessions to tobacco users for quitting their tobacco consumption habits. This manual uses a combination standardized of motivational interviewing and behavioral therapeutic approaches along with suggestions which may be offered as practical solutions to tobacco users to give up their habit. This resource may not be relevant universally to all tobacco users but it employs frequently used standardized approaches to tobacco use habit cessation and recovery from tobacco use addiction. Tobacco cessation proper, attempt to cease tobacco use , reduction in amount of tobacco consumed or increased desire to cease tobacco use among tobacco users can all be considered as successful outcome of this manual. India differs from international tobacco use model due to excessive smokeless tobacco consumption.The content of this manual is derived from various references; standardized recommendations from Tobacco Intervention Initiative, WHO and several other acknowledged resources are summarized , re arranged and modified as per Indian context.

O autorze

Bhargava, Stuti S.
Dr.Stuti S.Bhargava completed her BDS & MDS (OMR) from VSPMs Dental College & Research Center Nagpur. Her Ph.D. in 2017 from DMIMS dealt with "Tobacco Control" & in 2018 she graduated from the prestigious NIH/ NCI Cancer Prevention fellowship. With 12 grants to her credit so far she is considered as an emerging talent in health academia & research.