Assessment of psychological dependence among tobacco users: A survey held among the rural population of India to call for attention of tobacco cessation centers.

The high frequency of tobacco chewing in young people could be attributed to some of following reasons: Younger age group of the rural population is not so familiar with the trend of tobacco smoking especially cigarette smoking due to cost factor Manually made cheaper tobacco chewing products such as mawa, gutakha, tobacco quid etc., are more preferred Peer pressure In rural population bidi smoking has become a definite trend for older ones and not much accepted by younger population Younger individuals can hide their habit of tobacco consumption by preferring tobacco chewing rather than tobacco smoking.

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The comparison of FTND scores for older adults (40- 50 years; [ Table 5 ]) and those above 50 years [ Table 6 ] in rural population revealed that, though there was no significant difference in duration of habit between Group IC and IIC, there was highly significant difference observed in relation to psychological dependence among these individuals.

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