Research Article Knowledge, Attitude, Practices, and Preparedness of Dental Professionals in Prescribing Nicotine Replacement Therapy Pratibha Taneja , 1 Parul Kashyap, 1 Charu Mohan Marya, 1 Ruchi Nagpal, 1 Sakshi Kataria, 1 Soumya Mahapatra, 1 and Anand Marya 2 1 Department of Public Health Dentistry, Sudha Rustagi College of Dental Sciences and Research, Haryana, India 2 Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Puthisastra, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Correspondence should be addressed to Pratibha Taneja; pratibhataneja3@gmail.com and Anand Marya; amarya@puthisastra.edu.kh Received 7 October 2021; Accepted 1 February 2022; Published 17 February 2022 Academic Editor: Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães Abreu Copyright © 2022 Pratibha Taneja et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective. To assess the knowledge, practice, attitude, and preparedness of dental professionals in prescribing nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). Methodology. A prevalidated voluntary web-based questionnaire was generated as a link through Google Drive and was sent to 117 dental professionals in North India using Whatsapp, Messenger, and Instagram social media platforms. A total of 94 responses were received and out of which 76 responses were analyzed (18 forms were excluded due to incomplete or duplicate responses). Frequency analysis was done using SPSS software version 21. Result. The participation rate was found to be 80.3%. More than half of the study population were familiar with the term NRT (77.6%) and its uses (67.1%), but approximately less than half of the total study subjects knew the duration (32.9%), cost (27.6%), dosage (25%), and contraindications (36.8%) of the NRT. Approximately 56.6% of the study participants showed a positive attitude towards helping patients to quit smoking through tobacco cessation counseling. Nearly one-fourth of the study population, i.e., 27.6%, were confident in explaining the negative impacts of tobacco, while 22.4% knew about the tobacco cessation protocol. Among the participants, only 27.6% reported that they practice NRT and out of which approximately less than 20% of the study participants were prescribing correct dose of NRT. Conclusion. Though study subjects had an ample knowledge regarding NRT use in tobacco cessation, it does not reflect their current attitude and preparedness. Thus, there is a need for continuing education to further train dental professionals for prescribing NRT. 1. Introduction Tobacco kills more than 8 million people each year. More than 7 million of these deaths are due to the direct use of tobacco, and approximately 1.2 million are due to passive smoking or third handsmoke [1]. It causes a huge amount of suffering for individuals and their families by diminishing their quality of life and imparting an economic burden on them. More countries are making tobacco control a priority for saving lives by using the WHO MPOWER strategy, i.e., monitoring tobacco use and prevention policies, protecting people from tobacco smoke, offering help to quit tobacco use, warning about the danger of tobacco, enforcing bans on tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship, and raising tobacco taxes [2]. The government of India launched the National Tobacco Control Program (NTCP) in the year 2007-08 to create awareness about the harmful effects of tobacco consumption, to reduce the production and supply of tobacco products, and to ensure effective implementation of the provisions under “The Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Reg- ulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply, and Distribution) Act, 2003” (COTPA) to help the people quit tobacco use. Currently, the program is being implemented in all 36 states/union territories covering around 612 Hindawi BioMed Research International Volume 2022, Article ID 5782228, 7 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5782228