Background: Tobacco smoking leads to a greater mortality rate of the population. This factor has been unnoticed by the population of our country and they are being addicted to the deadly tobacco. Aim: To study the prevalence of nicotine dependence among patients visiting dental hospitals. Materials and methods: A questionnaire based cross sectional survey was conducted among 150 tobacco users visiting dental hospitals in Chennai. The observed data was statistically analysed in SPSS software version 23.Pearson chi square test was done to assess the association between Gender and Nicotine dependence score.Results: Majority of the tobacco users preferred cigarettes. Both smoking and non-smoking dependency was moderate among the tobacco users. Pearson chi square test value shows p value is 0.320( p value >0.05). Hence, it is not statistically significant.Discussion:Males have high smoking dependency, while the females have higher dependency on smokeless tobacco than males. The population between the category of 18-25 are moderately dependent on smoking tobacco users.18-25 age groups are highly dependent among smokeless dependent, and below 18 are moderately smokeless dependent. Conclusion: From the present study results, most of the participants used a smoking form of tobacco whereas smokeless users were comparatively less.

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