STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES
- Patient with known tobacco habit of smoking or smokeless tobacco will be identified in Department of Oral Medicine from routine Out Patients.
- After attending the primary complaint of the patient tobacco users will be referred from Comprehensive Dental Clinic (CDC) to Tobacco Cessation Clinic (TCC).
- One intern from CDC will be posted in TCC on rotation basis .The patient proforma/ questionnaire regarding the attitude and intention of quitting tobacco will be filled by intern.
- Intern should inform regarding patient to faculty in charge and a faculty/PG should attend the patient. Faculty from OMR, Oral Pathology, Public Health Dentistry should be called for detailed history, counselling, treatment and medication.
- For patient counselling the service of Institutional Counselor should be utilized.
- The attending staffs and councilors have undergone training in Tobacco cessation.
- Maintenance and Patient follow-up will be done and Patient register to be maintained.
- The medications and adjunct therapeutical items has to be procured and made available for sales in college pharmacy and till which prescription can be given for outside purchase.