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| The smoke-free policies in India were enforced since 2 October 2008 and different states are at varying levels of its implementation, yet the tobacco cessation services are still limited to very few clinics in India. A lead article published in The Economist (7-13 March 2009) says: "Tobacco is more addictive than virtually all of them [narcotic drugs]. With tobacco being highly addictive, high-quality and reliable tobacco cessation service is inevitable in order to facilitate the people to quit the tobacco use in any form. Tobacco Cessation service includes personal counseling, & coaching which help the employees and supervisors in understanding the road blocks to their tobacco cessation attempts. "The Counselor" team focuses on
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Prof. T K Thomas 06 Nov, 2018 Way back in 1988-’89 one was visiting drug and alcohol de-addiction and rehabilitation centers in Delhi and elsewhere as part field study for research to write a 30 episode serial for All India Radio. Radio DATE [ Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco Education] was a joint initiative of All India Radio and the Indian Council of Medical Research [ICMR]. After visiting many centres the head of a government run facility asked what was one’s next place of visit. When he heard Navjyoti Delhi Police Foundation he sarcastically commented that at that centre started by the first woman IPS officer Kiran Bedi in Sarai Rohilla police station, they were practicing “Danda Therapy”[therapy using the rod]. He was told that as a media person one would go and find out what therapy was being practiced in Navjyoti . One was warmly received by Suneel Vatsyayan, the young and dynamic Director of Navjyoti, a Master of Social Work from Jamia Millia Islamia [presently member of ...
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