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We are, Thursday, November 3, the third day of the great challenge of the month without tobacco. A course that is not easy to pass when you are a smoker. Since its launch, more than a million people have taken part.
It is almost unanimous among smokers, the most difficult thing is to quit. “Since I took over, I tried two or three times to quit. I quit once for a week, then I started again”, confides a smoker. This Thursday, November 3 marks the third day of the tobacco-free month. This month urges cigarette addicts not to smoke for 30 days. Bénédicte Lefèvre was on a packet a day for 38 years. She stopped when she became a grandmother. “There, I realized that I had to quit smoking for her. I didn’t want her to say to me one day ‘Granny, you don’t smell good‘” she explains.
According to the doctors, passing the course of a month of weaning is essential and has undeniable benefits for health. “From the moment we realize that we can do a month without tobacco and that it is not at all difficult, even rather pleasant because we breathe better, we want to continue”, according to Dr. Marion Adler, tobacco specialist at the Antoine-Béclère hospital in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine). To date, 129,000 people have registered on the site of the month without tobacco. A smoker is five times more likely to quit smoking after one month without tobacco.