Introduction: Intake of smokeless tobacco has significantly increased within’ these years. Many campaigns and programmes are being organised to help people quit using these. This kind of addiction adds on many more health related issues. This is predominant among individuals with low socio-economic status, mental health, unemployment and many other factors make the addiction to this kind of use. Materials and methods: A survey was conducted among dental students through an online platform creating google forms with verified questionnaires. The responses collected from 100 respondents were then formulated into excel sheets and after coding were transferred to SPSS software version 23 using descriptive analysis and chi square test using crosstabs. Results: Results were analysed using SPSS using chi square test with a P value of <0.05 and was found to have around 74.36% of males through . Also people 48.1% were in preparation, 44.9% were in pre contemplation, 7.1% were in contemplation with respect to their readiness to quit. Conclusion: Most of the respondents come under the preparation stage with 48.1% and others are under pre contemplation and contemplation stages.

Chewable tobacco, Fagerstrom test, Novel Method, Socioeconomic status, Innovative technique.