The global burden of oral cancer has continued to rise, especially in India, mainly due to the high consumption of tobacco and betel quid. Current research has helped elucidate the relationship between tobacco use and the spread of oral cancer, but more still needs to be understood. Rigorous prevention programs and well-established supportive infrastructure are vital to reducing the number of tobacco-related oral cancer cases.
In light of World No Tobacco Day, join us for a special session, organized in association with SIPHER, on “Tobacco and Oral Cancers” with the renowned Surgical Oncologist Dr. Pawan Gupta on 10th June 2023, 5 PM IST onwards.
Session Highlights:
Tobacco Cessation in Western methodology cannot be copied for Indian patients
What is Chota Dana Campaign?
How can cessation of tobacco cure many lesions in the oral cavity?
The Ninth Tutorial for Certified Tobacco Cessation Specialists was conducted by Dr. Siddhi Hathiwala, on 15th May 2023. 26 CTCS attended the same. The agenda was set as follows:
1) Discussion on an Interventional study about ‘Training for PHC Health Workers regarding early detection of Oral Cancer & Pre-cancer’ presented by Dr. Kshipra Deshpande. Suggestions were put up by all the participants for better execution of this awareness drive
2) Discuss Srijay’s dilemma about ‘Should a wife give prescribed medicines to her smoker husband without his knowledge?’
3) Discussion on Srijay’s query about ‘How to tackle relatives who smoke and do not like to be advised to quit?’
4) Ideas and agenda planning for World No Tobacco Day as a CTCS group.
The importance of motivation for healthcare workers was highlighted. Great stress was placed on primary preventive activities at ground level by these health workers, and spreading awareness about oral self-examination by the people. It was the unanimous assertion that early detection of minor changes in the color and size of oral tissues could prevent full-blown cancer development. The ground-level health workers need to be vigilant about these features and refer patients to higher centers.
Activities that can be planned out for celebrating World No Tobacco Day, on 31st May, by the ICanCaRe family, were discussed in detail. Everyone agreed on making Flyers in their local languages and circulate them on social media to highlight tobacco cessation activities by the ICanCaRe family.
The importance of Yog and Motivating Energy for tobacco cessation patients was highlighted – Sync-energy every Sunday morning.
Training of the APRIL 2023 batch of Tobacco MARSHAL under the leadership of Mrs. Sonal Bhatia and Mrs. Pravesh Singh and guidance of Dr. Pawan Gupta Founder ICanCaRe was conducted online on the 20th and 21st of April 2023.
The batch consisted of senior Inner Wheel Members District 307,310,315,312
Dant Pari and Moradabad teachers, Rotarians, and doctors as well.
The training “BASIC COURSE IN TOBACCO CONTROL” 8R principles was imparted by the ICanCaRe Certified Tobacco Cessation Specialists – Mrs. Sonal Bhatia, Dr. Reena R Kumar, Dr. Ranjeeta and Dr. Rajkumari Sachdeva and Dr. Pawan Gupta.
4 hours of intensive discussion 2 hours each day covered the 8R aspects of Tobacco and empowered each of the participants as TOBACCO MARSHALs.
Dr. Shweta K Javali and Dr. Neeru who are running a dental assistant program for rural girls as DANTPARI included the second batch of Dant PAries to be tobacco MARSHAL. 9 Dant Paries who participated in the program were very much interactive and wished to do more to influence people against tobacco in rural areas.
The training included the communication skill to influence a person to quit tobacco.
TOBACCO MARSHAL is an influencer: – HERO to SAVE the youth
· MOTIVATE #besmartdonotstart
· ADVISE to #quittobacco
· RECOGNISE #chotadaana #SMF #TrisCaRe
· SENSITISE to #becarefulandfearful
· HANDHOLD to #SAVEtheYouth in need
· ADD to network for #knowtobacco
· LEAD the change for #TobaccofreeZones
§ Tobacco MARSHAL is a prestige and a recognition of personal social responsibility.
§ ICanCaRe Academy certifies Tobacco MARSHALs with a structured “BASIC COURSE IN TOBACCO CONTROL”, empowers them with the knowledge, and equips them with resources to act and communicate wisely in society creating units of tobacco-free zones.
The MARSHALS will be provided with the Course Certificate, Badges, caps, and materials to talk with power in their area.
ICanCaRe welcomes the new batch of tobacco MARSHALs to the family of ICanCaRe.
