Tobacco Cessation Clinic is an initiative by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health of India. Tobacco cessation activities formally began with the opening of 13 tobacco cessation clinics in Anand

Anand, Gujarat

]]Anand is the administrative centre of Anand District in the state of Gujarat, India. It is administered by Anand Municipality. It is part of the region known as Charotar, consisting of Anand and Kheda Districts....

, Bhopal, Bangalore

Bangalore

Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

, Chandigarh

Chandigarh

Chandigarh is a union territory of India that serves as the capital of two states, Haryana and Punjab. The name Chandigarh translates as "The Fort of Chandi". The name is from an ancient temple called Chandi Mandir, devoted to the Hindu goddess Chandi, in the city...

, Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

, Cuttack

Cuttack

Cuttack is the former capital of the state of Orissa, India. It is the headquarters of Cuttack district and is located about 20 km to the north east of Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa. The name of the city is an anglicised form of Kataka that literally means The Fort, a reference to the...

, Delhi (2), Goa

Goa

Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...

, Jaipur

Jaipur

Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....

, Lucknow

Lucknow

Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh in India. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....

, Mumbai

Mumbai

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, and Patna

Patna

Paṭnā , is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar and the second largest city in Eastern India . Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world...

 in 2002. Tobacco cessation clinics were renamed to tobacco cessation centers in 2005. Five more tobacco cessation centers were established in Mizoram

Mizoram

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, Guwahati

Guwahati

Guwahati, Pragjyotishpura in ancient Assam formerly known as Gauhati is a metropolis,the largest city of Assam in India and ancient urban area in North East India, with a population of 963,429. It is also the largest metropolitan area in north-eastern India...

, Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

, Hyderabad and Trivandrum, which makes a total of 18 centers.

The services offered at the clinic include individual intervention in the form of behavioral counseling, medication, and nicotine replacement therapy

Nicotine replacement therapy

Nicotine replacement therapy is the remedial administration of nicotine to the body by means other than tobacco, usually as part of smoking cessation. Common forms of nicotine replacement therapy are nicotine patches and nicotine gum...

. The centers also intend to create awareness among the general public about the negative effects of tobacco and about tobacco cessation through awareness programs, exhibitions training programs on tobacco cessation for various professionals, and information booklets & manuals aimed at specific groups of the population.

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 Centre Jawaharlal Nehru Cancer Hospital & Research Centre Jawaharlal Nehru Cancer Hospital & Research Centre is a private-sector cancer care hospital in Bhopal, India. It was founded in 1995 by Madhya Pradesh Cancer Chikitsa Evam Seva Samiti ....	Bhopal	Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....
PGIMER	Chandigarh	Chandigarh
Cancer Institute (Adyar Cancer Institute Adyar Cancer Institute Adyar Cancer Institute is a cancer specialty hospital situated in the city of Chennai, India; founded by Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy on June 18, 1954. Land was donated by Mr. S.K.Puniyakoti Mudaliar.-Several firsts:... )	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 Rajasthan Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
King George’s Medical College	Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh
Tata Memorial Hospital Tata Memorial Hospital The Tata Memorial Hospital is situated in Parel, Mumbai in India. It is a specialist cancer treatment and research centre, closely associated with the Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer . One of the fields of specialization of this hospital is in the treatment of acute...	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 Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute is a cancer care hospital and one of the 25 Regional Cancer Centres in India. It is located in Culcutta. It was founded on January 2, 1950, as Chittaranjan Cancer Hospital, named after Chittaranjan Das, who donated land and property for the cause....	Kolkatta	West Bengal West Bengal West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram	Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram , formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarters of the Thiruvananthapuram District. It is located on the west coast of India near the extreme south of the mainland...	Kerala Kerala or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

The Tobacco Cessation Clinic Resource Center (TCCRC), which is functioning in the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, (NIMHANS

NIMHANS

The National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences is located in Bangalore, and is the premier neuroscience institute of India. It is recognised by the Government of India as a 'medical institute of national importance'...

), Bangalore, is the national coordinating center for all the TCCs. The center in Bangalore runs an out patient clinic

Clinic

A clinic is a health care facility that is primarily devoted to the care of outpatients...

twice a week (Saturdays and Mondays) in the de-addiction OP section of the NIMHANS.

External links

Tobacco cessation clinics are playing a very useful role in cessation and prevention of tobacco habits among the asymptomatic people attending the hospitals for various reasons namely as attendant ,visitorand /or parents seeking family welfare advice. Delhi being 'National Capital Region' is fortunate to have number of such clinics at its apex teaching hospitals such as , UCMS-GTB Hospital, PGI Medical Education and Research and Associated RML Hospital, LRS Institute,Mehrauli, Hamdard Institute of Medical Education and Research and Associated HAH Centenary Hospital , Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi besides olderone at Vallabh Bhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi and IHBAS , Dilshad Garden , Delhi-95.

1. Cancer Institute (Adyar Cancer Institute), Chennai http://cancerinstitutewia.org/

2. National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore http://www.nimhans.kar.nic.in/

3. University Of Delhi, Delhi http://www.du.ac.in/

4. Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi http://www.vpci.org.in/index.asp

5. Regional Cancer Center, Thiruvananthapuram http://www.rcctvm.org/

6. Jawaharlal Nehru Cancer Hospital and Research centre idgah hills , Bhopal MP
www.jnch.nic.in

7. Kerala Quit Smoking Institute http://review.quitsmokingebook.info/?p=1#comments