Introduction India the land of Chewing tobacco is also the land of Oral Cancer. India ranks the highest in the World in terms of both incidence and prevalence of Oral Cancers. And more than that we have the highest number of people harboring premalignant lesion in the mouth potential to turn malignant. Fortunately, oral cancers […]
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Oral Cancer Oral CareApril 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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Oral Cancer Oral CareSpouse 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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Tobacco Women and TobaccoSpouse 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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Tobacco Women and TobaccoTobacco 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
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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Quitting Tobacco TobaccoThe 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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Quitting Tobacco TobaccoThis 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
Maintaining Hydration is one the most important aspect of Tobacco Cessation – both smoking and chewing. Water plays an immense role in controlling your cravings. When quitting tobacco there is an increase need for water intake. When you have an urge, taking 2 glasses of water can magically relieve your cravings. (related – 7Ds of
What is XEROSTOMIA ? Xerostomia is defined as dry-mouth and is often associated with hypofunction of the salivary glands resulting from reduced or absent saliva flow. It may happen due to various medical conditions, a side effect of a wide variety of medications or a side effect of Cancer treatment – radiotherapy to the head
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