2023-11-01 15:29:08
More than 127,000 people are registered for No Tobacco Month on Wednesday, November 1st. An operation that allows you to be supported by health professionals and a community.
“Good luck”, “all together, we are stronger”, “we can do it”… Words of encouragement are multiplying on the Tabac info service Facebook page on this Wednesday, November 1, the first day of the Month without Tobacco. For this 2023 edition, more than 127,000 people are registered, compared to 160,000 last year. This operation, inspired by the United Kingdom, which has returned every year since 2016, encourages smokers to quit smoking for 30 days.
Registering for Tobacco Free Month not only allows you to set yourself a personal challenge but also to benefit from daily support from a tobacco specialist – online or by telephone via a dedicated free number (39 89) – to receive a quit kit consisting of a program or even a “savings wheel” which allows you to simulate the savings made when quitting smoking.
For specialists, this challenge is very effective because the most important thing is “not to quit alone,” says Marion Adler, tobacco specialist at the Antoine-Béclère hospital in Clamart, speaking to BFMTV.
She adds: “it helps you not to be in need, not to suffer. Smoking cessation can be done easily if you have support.”
Replace cigarettes with nicotine substitutes
To achieve this withdrawal, the specialist advises taking nicotine in the form of a patch, gum, lozenge or even via vaping, “a key element for not suffering”. Substitutes for cigarettes fully reimbursed when prescribed by a doctor.
“Nicotine is not dangerous, so we take it as long as we need, and we gradually reduce it. The urgent thing is to eliminate the smoke,” underlines Marion Adler.
In cigarettes, it is “the combustion of tobacco and the 4,000 products that are precisely in this smoke” which is dangerous, explained in 2021 Mathieu Samson, addiction liaison and care team at the Antoine-Hospital. Béclère. Nicotine is responsible for the addiction of the 12 million French people who smoke every day.
“25% of those registered for the tobacco-free month succeed”
If this tobacco-free month is adhered to by the participants, their chance of quitting permanently seems good according to the tobacco specialist. “One month really allows you to realize that it’s doable, to say to yourself ‘I’m capable of it’. And to say to yourself why not two, three months and finally, to completely free yourself from this dependence which takes money and damages health.
From a numerical point of view, success seems more relative. “25% of those registered for the tobacco-free month succeed,” notes Loïc Josseran, president of the Alliance Against Tobacco, invited this Wednesday on franceinfo. The latter warns of the urgency of combating the scourge of smoking, the leading cause of avoidable death in France with nearly 75,000 deaths per year. “One in two smokers will die from their smoking,” he warns.
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