ABSTRACT World No Tobacco Day is an initiative by the World Health Organization and is observed on May 31st every year. It aims to spread awareness about the dangers of tobacco and its negative impact in health and environment. The World No Tobacco Day theme for 2021 is “Commit to Quit”. Adverse effects of tobacco smoking: Smoking causes various cancers like mouth cancer, larynx cancer, esophageal cancer, kidney cancer, etc. It causes various heart diseases like Atherosclerosis, coronary heart diseases, etc. It affects respiratory system by damaging the lungs causes COPD. It affects the sexual organs by decreasing the fertility, earlier menopause, decreased sperm count. It causes poverty due to addiction, money that could be used on education, food or health care goes to tobacco. Stages of Quitting Smoking: Denial: Difficulty to accept that smoking is affecting your health. Acceptance: It is common to realize the negative impact of smoking when it causes illness of loved ones/negative impact in their lives. Contemplation and Planning: When you are ready to consider quitting and planning to make a change. Action/active stage: Identifying quit plan. Maintenance: Involves working to continue your quit plan. Relapse: Starting to smoke again. Quitting Smoking Nicotine replacement therapy Exercise Practice relaxation techniques COVID-19 and Tobacco Use Current evidence suggests that the severity of COVID-19 is higher among smokers. Smoking impairs lung function, making it more difficult for the body to fight off respiratory disease due to the new coronavirus. Corona Virus is another good reason to quit smoking.

1. STAGES:QUITING SMOKING
COVID-19 and TOBACCO USE
THE EEFECT OF THE CORONAVIRUS
CAN BE WORSE FOR PEOPLE WHO USE
TOBACCO
ASK
YOURSELF, IS
IT WORTH IT?
REFERENCES:
https://vapingdaily.com/
https://www.euro.who.int/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/
https://www.swedish.org/
https://www.cdc.gov/
HEART DISEASES
LUNG CANCER
DEATH
POVERTY
PASSIVE SMOKING
GLOBAL WARMING
DR. NEHA PATIL
WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY
COMMIT TO QUIT
METHODS TO QUIT
SMOKING
1. NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY
2. AVOID TRIGGERS
3. DELAY
4. CHEW ON IT
5. EXERCISE
6. PRACTICE RELAXATION TECHNIQUES
STOP SMOKING BEFORE SMOKING STOPS YOU
BENEFITS OF QUITTING
IMPROVES HEALTH AND INCRESES
LIFE EXPECTANCY
LOWERS RISK OF DIFFERENT TYPES
OF CANCER
LOWERS RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR
DISEASES
LOWERS RISK OF CHRONIC
OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASES
LOWERS RISK OF SOME POOR
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OUTCOMES
LOWERS THE FINANCIAL BURDEN
ORAL DISEASES