Registration is open for the Tobacco Free Month, which takes place annually in November. This operation has existed in France for five years. Is it effective in helping those who want to quit smoking? Yes, according to theThe figures published on Tuesday 26 October.
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The month without tobacco is this collective challenge to quit smoking thanks to Tabac info service or telephone consultations. To assess the device, experts from Public Health France interviewed 12,500 daily smokers, taken at random, and asked them if they had tried to quit smoking in the last three months of the year, around the date of this operation therefore. Result: the rate of quitting attempts has increased among smokers, since the introduction of the tobacco-free month in 2016. In addition, 1.8 million quit attempts were directly caused by this operation, indicates Public Health France. Half of these smokers registered on the internet to participate in the challenge. The other half got motivated, all on their own.
The methods used by these smokers to quit smoking, it is first the use of electronic cigarettes, then the use of nicotine substitutes (patches and gums), and third, consultations with a doctor.
Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg, tobacco specialist, confirms this increase in consultations, at home and his colleagues, at the time of this tobacco-free month.
There is a benefit to be stopped at any age. Doctors say it: even at 75 years old. Remember that tobacco is responsible for a quarter of cancers each year in France and that only four cigarettes per day triple the risk of heart attack.
When you stop, not only do you regain smell in two days, breath in three months, but the risk of heart disease is also reduced after a year of withdrawal. And when you have passed the 30 days without smoking, you multiply by five your chances of success to quit permanently. Because beyond 30 days, nervousness and withdrawal symptoms are greatly reduced.