Increasing Smoking Cessation Care among College Students: An Implementation study

Smoking is harmful because there are many ingredients in tobacco smoke that can harm         your body.The main health risks from smoking are lung cancer, heart disease and stroke. Smoking causes almost 90% of deaths from lung cancer, around 80% of deaths from COPD, and around 17% of deaths from heart disease.

While tobacco use is decreasing in many developed countries. it is increasing in developing countries such as India, As per the latest nationally representative Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS).  India had 275 million current tobacco users in the year 2009-2010 (over 35 % of adults): majority of them used smokeless tobacco (164 million) and 42 million used both forms of tobacco.

An estimated one million people die every year due to tobacco related diseases in India. In order to reduce the impact of tobacco related morbidity and mortality, we need a combination of strategies aimed at avoiding initiation of tobacco by the non-users and cessation of tobacco use among current users.