“YES it’s the Perfect Time to Quit”: Fueling Tobacco Cessation in India during COVID-19 Pandemic

Entire world is battling the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic. India too, has undertaken stringent containment measures to combat this disease. The country is in a state of national lockdown, which has inadvertently led more than a quarter of the Indian population to not use tobacco. Th...

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Autores principales: Grover, Shekhar, Mohanty, Vikrant, Jain, Swati, Anand, Tanu, Aghi, Mira B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
Materias:
Smoking, Vaping, and COVID-19
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7525219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33033429
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1179173X20960447
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description Entire world is battling the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic. India too, has undertaken stringent containment measures to combat this disease. The country is in a state of national lockdown, which has inadvertently led more than a quarter of the Indian population to not use tobacco. This paper discusses the opportunity that surfaces with unavailability of tobacco products, and advocates the need for escalation of tobacco cessation services as well as strategic management of stress to stay tobacco-free.
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spelling pubmed-75252192020-10-07 “YES it’s the Perfect Time to Quit”: Fueling Tobacco Cessation in India during COVID-19 Pandemic Grover, Shekhar Mohanty, Vikrant Jain, Swati Anand, Tanu Aghi, Mira B Tob Use Insights Smoking, Vaping, and COVID-19 Entire world is battling the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic. India too, has undertaken stringent containment measures to combat this disease. The country is in a state of national lockdown, which has inadvertently led more than a quarter of the Indian population to not use tobacco. This paper discusses the opportunity that surfaces with unavailability of tobacco products, and advocates the need for escalation of tobacco cessation services as well as strategic management of stress to stay tobacco-free. SAGE Publications 2020-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7525219/ /pubmed/33033429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1179173X20960447 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Jain, Swati
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“YES it’s the Perfect Time to Quit”: Fueling Tobacco Cessation in India during COVID-19 Pandemic
title “YES it’s the Perfect Time to Quit”: Fueling Tobacco Cessation in India during COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full “YES it’s the Perfect Time to Quit”: Fueling Tobacco Cessation in India during COVID-19 Pandemic
title_fullStr “YES it’s the Perfect Time to Quit”: Fueling Tobacco Cessation in India during COVID-19 Pandemic
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title_short “YES it’s the Perfect Time to Quit”: Fueling Tobacco Cessation in India during COVID-19 Pandemic
title_sort “yes it’s the perfect time to quit”: fueling tobacco cessation in india during covid-19 pandemic
topic Smoking, Vaping, and COVID-19
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7525219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33033429
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1179173X20960447
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