Dimapur, Oct. 23 -- The Nagaland Health and Family Welfare Department, under the National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP), launched an initiative on Friday in collaboration with Vital Strategies, New Delhi, to systematically integrate brief advice for tobacco cessation into routine primary healthcare delivery across the state.

A state-level capacity-building programme for master trainers to integrate brief advice for cessation at the primary level in Nagaland was held at the Directorate of Health and Family Welfare in Kohima.

To support health personnel in carrying out this mandate, officials released two key training publications: the facilitator's guide for training health workers on tobacco cessation and the Nagaland reference manua...