New
app, helpline to beat smoking habit
On the occasion of World
No Tobacco Day, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Oncology and Research launched a
mobile phone app called "tobacco cessation" and a helpline service to
help people quit smoking.
The new app which can be
downloaded on android and iOS phones will have a questionnaire that will help ascertain
your addiction levels
and will keep giving you
updates on the dangers or improvements your body is experiencing based on your
smoking habits. "The app, based on the number of cigarettes you consume in
a week or a day will calculate the number of cigarettes you will smoke in a
fortnight, month or year. It will then start producing graphs on how your
health is deteriorating over that period of time," said Dr P Guhan, the
director and oncologist at the Research Institute. "The app will also
provide you graphs on how different organs in your body will benefit over time
when you keep off cigarettes over a period of time," said Dr Guhan. The
app also guides you to de-addiction centres in the locality with their address
located on google maps.
The app which can be
downloaded on android now, will soon be available on the app store, he added.
Temporarily non- android users can download the app by scanning the bar code
shown in the advertisements for the app.
The institute also
launched a telephone helpline 9200003232 to help smokers. People who know
someone who needs to quit smoking, need to just send an SMS to with srior, the
person's name and phone number typed in with spaces in between. The server will
immediately send an SMS to that person asking him or her if they need to quit
smoking. The server will then start sending them an SMS every day at 10 am
reminding them to quit smoking and take care of their health. This service too
is free.
Both the above initiatives
are primarily targeted to the youth, between 13 and 18 years, who start smoking
due to easy accessibility to pocket money and cigarettes. A large number of
Cancer patients are people who started smoking at an adolescent age.
The app and helpline
developed by Sri Ramakrishna institute was launched by West Zone
Inspector-General of Police, S Davidson Devasirtham.
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