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Oral cancers – Importance of Self Oral Examination: Identifying Chota Daana

April 20, 2021 | Dr. Pawan Gupta

April is recognized as Oral Cancer Awareness Month. Head and Neck experts from multiple specialties\’ unite together across the country to create sensitization about the importance of oral examination and hold oral screening camps for early detection and prevention of oral cancer. Experts always recommend to perform self examination once every month to detect the […]

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Most Important Reasons to Quit Smoking and Tobacco

March 7, 2021 | Shruti Agrawal

Any tobacco consumer or smoker is always encouraged to define 3 most important reasons to quit their habit so that it can remind them why they are quitting and keep them motivated in their journey to quit smoking successfully. This blog is an attempt to define some very common and important reasons why one would

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Spouse’s Role in Tobacco Cessation

February 28, 2021 | Dr. Pawan Gupta

Spouse has a very important role to play for tobacco cessation. Here I am only addressing the wife! There would be conflicts I have patients where the husband came to know about his wife’s habit post marriage. Traditionally Indians do not ask about the tobacco habits and even if they do the husbands would usually

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Spouse’s Nagging in Tobacco Cessation (Quitting Smoking and Chewing Tobacco)

February 21, 2021 | Dr. Pawan Gupta

Spouse has a very important role to play for tobacco cessation (quitting smoking or tobacco chewing). Frustration and non compliance by a husband gives rise to nagging as means to vent out the current irritation. Nagging by spouse may be due to many reasons, I am restricted here to tobacco use only. What is Nagging

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Why Do Tobacco Consumers Resist From Quitting Smoking and Chewing

February 14, 2021 | Shruti Agrawal

Whenever you approach a tobacco consumer to stop smoking or chewing, the very first and obvious reaction is “Why?”; “I can quit any time I want to.”; “Why are you worried? I will quit when I feel the need”; “I\’m not interested.”; “You must smoke with me to feel how relieving it feels.” You experience

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Be Careful Before Marrying of Your Daughter to A Tobacco User – Parent\’s Responsibilities

February 7, 2021 | Dr. Pawan Gupta

Tobacco is commonly used in India. While choosing a groom, no one really bothers to ask about tobacco use. Tobacco use till now is still an acceptable social norm. I have a question – “Would you marry your daughter to a person who is diseased or likely to have a disease?” “Arre Shadi ke baadh ladka

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Control the Cravings – 7th D of 7D Intervention of Quitting Tobacco and Smoking – Drug

January 31, 2021 | Dr. Pawan Gupta

Too long use of tobacco in any form – smoking or chewing, disturbs us and has become a part of our life and the tobacco consumer tends to associate lot of their routine activities with it. The timing of tobacco consumption have been such that many of the daily activities coincide with it, and we

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Women Empowerment – Spouse\’s Rights Towards Tobacco Use by Partner

January 24, 2021 | ICanCaRe

There is evidently a very confusing situation when a wife / spouse discovers that her counterpart is a tobacco user which she mentally does not accept as a habit in the normal go of life after marriage. In India, most of the marriages, whether arranged or loved, experience a lot of ambiguity about the habits

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5 Minutes is Enough to Control your Cravings -Train Your Mind -Divert and Delay

January 17, 2021 | Dr. Pawan Gupta

The urges are usually sudden and intense. In many of my articles earlier, I have mentioned about the will power. The will power can be overwhelmed with these sudden urges. Remembering the reasons to quit and if they are really strong reasons for you, you can recognize them and the mind races towards control. The

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Control the Cravings – 2nd D of 7D Intervention of Quitting Tobacco and Smoking – Deep Breathing Exercise

January 10, 2021 | Dr. Pawan Gupta

This is the one most important armamentarium to control the cravings along with the first D (Drink Plenty of Water). Whatever form of tobacco you have used – smoke or chew tobacco, Deep Breathing controls cravings and relaxes you. Stress, tension associated with work or while quitting smoking, light-headedness, loss of concentration, fatigue, weakness- these

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