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What You Need for Successfully Quitting Tobacco Chew and Smoking – COMMITMENT (COMMIT TO QUIT)

Yes, this is the only thing that I need from you for a 100% quit rate. Full Commitment and I assure you my and my team’s full commitment to handhold you through your journey. Make your journey a pleasurable and happy one. Happy while actively quitting and happy ever after.

The preparation needs careful planning and would need modulation as we go on. We would need all the inputs from you to help you cope up with the different situations that would arise.

  • Will power – The willpower to quit is needed. The willpower would not be the same for everyone. The Will Power Index helps me understand your requirement for the type of intervention.
  • Motivation – Motivation will vex and vane. Some days you may be high and other days your motivation would dwindle. Our team would be there to support you and keep you motivated. Please feel free to discuss.
  • Slips – It may happen. It gives an opportunity to understand weaknesses and learn how to handle those weak points. Discussing the reason for the slip and finding out a solution to handle it next time makes you stronger and committed to staying quit
  • Friends – Two types – 1. encouraging talking positively about your commitment to quitting. 2. Discouraging – making fun of you for your decision to quit. They are generally the ones who themselves are diseased, better avoid them now and forever. No need to argue with them they are not worth your time.
  • Nagging – It may have negative effects but let us think positively about the person nagging. The fact is that the other person is so frustrated over the period of time. Your positive approach would convert these negative factors to positive ones and give you the respect that you deserve. The only people you need around you are the positive people.

Remember: WITH EVIDENCE BASED APPROACH it is easy to SUCCESSFULLY QUIT TOBACCO. You need to take the first step and give us your commitment to quit, leave the rest to us. ICanCaRe Team will make this quit journey smooth and easy for you.

Once we have your commitment, we would help you through the withdrawals, the cravings, and various situations that would arise during the journey, but finally, you would win and that is assured. Just need to follow the ABCD of Tobacco Cessation. 

All the best and wish you a clean green healthy and lively life ahead. Visit www.icancare.in/quittobacco or call 011-430-77695 to get professional assistance to quit the tobacco/smoking addiction. Download the ICanCaRe APP.

Most Important Reasons to Quit Smoking and Tobacco

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 want to quit smoking. Pick out your reasons to quit and I’m sure many reasons will inspire you to stay quit and self control from smoking and chewing in vulnerable times.

Some common health reasons to quit smoking are:

  • Higher risk of getting infected with covid-19
  • Fear of suffering from cancer, CVD, CRD, Stroke, COPD and other chronic diseases
  • Early wrinkles on skin
  • Stains on teeth, skin and nails
  • Loss of smell, taste, hearing and vision
  • Increased risk of diabetes, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, etc.
  • Loss of fertility in both men and women
  • Painful menstruation for women
  • Tooth loss from periodontal diseases which wears the gums from chronic inflammation
  • Increased gastrointestinal problems such as bowel disorders, stomach ulcers, diarrhea, rectal bleeding etc.
  • Loss of bone density causing quick fractures, osteoporosis, etc.
  • Weakening of immune system making a person prone to infections and diseases

There are many more health impacts of smoking and tobacco use and we will discuss about it in other blogs in detail. There’s a misconception that smoking causes only cancer. However the fact is smoking causes more of CVDs and CRDs than cancer. More than 200 illnesses and chronic diseases occur in a person from tobacco consumption and smoking. On the contrary a tobacco consumer never believes that their tobacco habit or smoking is the root cause of their illnesses and diseases. Only when the chronic diseases start appearing does the consumer believe that tobacco has caused them irrevocable damages.

Other reasons to quit smoking and tobacco are:

  • Push from the family because the immediate family member, child or friends may be affected from second hand and third hand smoke
  • Financial losses from high expenditures of tobacco and its related products
  • Self-realization to quit habit on time before the damages cannot be undone
  • Ensuring safety of children and the near and dear ones like preventing burns, accidental fires, etc.
  • Negative social consequences like unacceptability in the non smoking group, feeling isolated at family parties or functions, difficulty in mingling with people around, etc.
  • Loss of productivity due to constant smoke breaks
  • Bad smell in clothes, hair, etc.
  • Self-realization to stop polluting the environment

The above are some of the common and most important reasons to quit smoking and tobacco forever. A person can have their own reasons to quit the habit and should always identify them before quitting. Constant reminder of 3 major reasons keeps the person motivated at all times to stay quit and firm on their decision quit the habit successfully.

Quitting tobacco and smoking, has been made very simple and easy at ICanCaRe with the scientific, medically validated and digitized tobacco cessation program. To register one can visit www.icancare.in/quittobacco or call helpline 011-430-77695 for assistance.

Spouse’s Role in Tobacco Cessation

SPOUSE’S ROLE IN TOBACCO CESSATION
Your Spouse is Your World!

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 lie, or say “I will Quit-I promise”. A promise which is hard to keep.

Sufferings of an Indian Lady whose husband smokes –

  • Have to manage with foul smelling husband
  • Keep cleaning the washrooms, bedrooms etc.
  • Cleaning the stains on his clothes (In India it is wife’s job!)
  • Infertility and dis-balanced sexual life
  • Finance and economic dis balance
  • Caretaker when the husband who is often ill because of his tobacco habit
  • Taking care of family when husband is no more or crippled because of illness
  • Passive smoking or tobacco chewing affects
    • Suffer illness (hypertension, COPD, Wrinkling of skin etc)
    • Infective disease – Tuberculosis
    • Complicated diseases like cancer, cardiac, stroke
  • The Future generation may be crippled

A LADY SUFFERS FOR NO MISTAKE OF HERS

Different type of wives when it comes to the tobacco habit of their husband

  1. Helpless and suffering – the Indian traditional wives. She is aware of the harms of tobacco but cannot get the husband to understand or quit.
  2. Ignorant and accepts as it is. Not aware of the harms of tobacco as because it has been used traditionally in her family too
  3. Partners – starts using tobacco along with him.
  4. Firm – She is aware of the harms and firm with her husband and pushes him to rectify his habit
  5. Quarreling – keeps scolding  but does nothing about his tobacco use
  6. Helping – learns the various methods of quitting and takes the husband to doctors, help him quit

NAGGING – because of frustration and suffering at some point of time this would show up and become a part of the relationship. This may have a negative affect and the husband may become more adamant.

TAKE ACTION

A newly wed wife has to take immediate action once she comes to know about the spouse’s disease. If it is accepted in the beginning, but slowly it becomes a chronic issue and gets more difficult to treat as time passes.

The challenge is getting support, tobacco use is so rampant and accepted in the society that she does not get family support. But being firm and knowledgeable helps.

How to know:

There are tell-tale signs of tobacco use whether smoking or chewing

  • Stains on teeth and /or lips
  • Bad foul smelly breaths
  • Constant coughing
  • Stains on nail beds, fingers
  • Foul smelly hairs and cloths

Some behavioral aspects that one needs to notice

  • Chewing gums – constant use
  • Frequently disappearing
  • Going for a walk avoiding you
  • Friend circle

Laboratory and Qualitative assessment

  • Laboratory tests are available for confirmation of tobacco use (Cotinine Test)
  • Qualitative assessment of present health assessment

It is important that one should know and decide before tying the knot. Tobacco is a disease and you do not want to be wedded to a diseased person. Either he takes treatment and is cured for at least 6 months or he is not the right choice for you.

Help is available. Tobacco as a disease needs intensive treatment. ICanCaRe Tobacco Wellness Centers and Online Tobacco Wellness program are just a call away. ICanCaRe team of Certified tobacco Cessation Specialists and Quit Coaches work with you to make your journey smooth, easy, interesting and achievable.

The ICanCaRe Tobacco Wellness Program incorporates evidence-based protocol digitalized intervention program which is both medically validated and scientific in its nature. It is data driven and has given a success rate of 92%.

ICanCaRe Tobacco Wellness Centres with its India’s first digital protocol-based assessment process guide intervention as per requirements.

Do visit the ICanCaRe Tobacco Wellness Centres or register online by visiting our page or call ICanCaRe quit line 011-430-77695.