Strengthening Cessation capacity in the National Tobacco Control Programme of India

Goal: To strengthen the tobacco cessation component of India’s ‘National Tobacco Control Programme’ (NTCP) by building capacity of physicians working in primary and secondary health care for providing evidence-based tobacco cessation interventions

Objectives: To design and evaluate a training program to assist physicians in primary and secondary health care to deliver an evidence-based brief tobacco cessation intervention in health care settings in selected districts of Odisha and Rajasthan; Create a resource network and training model for cessation that can be advocated for scaling at pan-India level; To build the capacity of NTCP state officials to advocate for the provision of evidence-based tobacco cessation interventions at state and district level