Background: Tobacco use is one of the biggest public health issue. Smoking causes many serious diseases including cancer and strokes, and it shortens the life expectancy. Smokers have a greater risk of cancer than nonsmokers. Thus, smoking prevention should be aimed at young people. Teachers are respected people and they have a great responsibility for tobacco control. The teachers are also role models for students and key figures in tobacco prevention programmes.

Aims and objectives

§  To assess prevalence of tobacco use among the teachers and effect of training in quitting tobacco use.

§  To find out the level of nicotine dependence and it correlates among Teacher

Material and methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted among 625 teachers using a predesigned questionnaire which consists of 31 questions related to demographic details, smoking habits, Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND), Smoking Decisional Balance Scale (SDBS), and information about Stage of Change. The data collection was done using face to face interview. The collected data were entered in the MS excel sheets. A descriptive statistical analysis was performed using IBM SPSS 25 ver software.

Results: A Total of 624 teachers participated in the study, among those 508 were males and 118 were females. The median age of the teachers was 35.49±8.84. The teachers’ mean score for the pre-test of FTND was 7.7±3.03, and their mean score for the post-test was 4.85±2.01. Post-test scores were remarkably lower than the pre-test scores. It was found that teachers’ mean scores for SDBS were different before and after training. After training, anti-smoking attitudes increased (pros-cons scores: pre-test3.03±4.68, post test:−12.85±6.48). The training helped the the entire group to make progress in the process change.