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Background: Tobacco is a leading preventable cause of death, killing nearly six million people worldwide each year. Reversing this entirely preventable manmade epidemic should be our top priority. Aims: This study aims to access knowledge, attitude, and awareness about Tobacco cessation in the Young Adult Population. Settings and Design: This research design is a Cross-Sectional Study, Qualitative and quantitative to evaluate tobacco cessation in the young adult (17-45 years) population in the urban area of Okhla, South East Delhi, New Delhi. Need of The Study: In this study, a novel approach to Tobacco cessation is considered, in that, emphasis is laid on the importance of knowledge, attitude and awareness towards tobacco cessation and reasons of the failure to quit tobacco. Methods and Materials: This is a cross-sectional study; Data was collected using a semi-structured questionnaire. Randomly selected 400 young adults were interviewed, data analysis was done using SPSS Statistical Software Packages for Social Sciences Software and the result was formulated by applying descriptive frequencies for categorical variables, Chi-square test, and Fisher's exact test. Results: The results indicate that the young adult population is age, gender, marital status, income group, and family size a factor that does not determine whether a person is a consumer of tobacco or not in whichever way. Whereas educational qualification does as a factor responsible for the level of knowledge about the harmful effect of tobacco and the number of quit attempts. Conclusions: This study determines that 100% of the population is not aware of the adverse effect of tobacco usage and it also interferes that there is a large number of the population trying to quit tobacco and many of them failed to do it because of the one or the other reasons, suggesting that there is a need to develop government facilitated programs for tobacco cessation.