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With already nearly 150,000 registered for its 4th edition, the "Month without tobacco", which offers since 2016 to stop smoking for a month, can it be a good opportunity to stop permanently? Invited Friday of Europe 1, Marion Adler, addictologist at Béclère Hospital in Clamart, believes that such an operation can be "a good start" for smokers wishing to end smoking. Providing some tips to facilitate this weaning, the specialist also recalls that "we do not need to suffer" to stop smoking.
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The "No Smoking Month" can be "a good motivation," she explains, as well as "a form of commitment to her colleagues, her family, but above all to oneself, her health and the respect of his body". According to Marion Adler, this challenge organized by the Ministry of Health with Public Health France and Health Insurance "can work for everyone". But, she recalls, "we do not need to suffer for stopping smoking, we can do it with joy, happiness and pleasure."
"We have plenty of treatments to calm the urge to smoke"
The important thing, according to the addictologist, is to have the "crutches adapted", especially in the face of lack of nicotine. "If you have the treatments that suit you, you will not suffer from lack," she reassures. And if the lack becomes too difficult to manage, "you have to take nicotine," she advises, "to have something that helps you pass a course when you really want to smoke." And prescribe for example nicotine chewing gum. "If that's not enough, we must combine the patch with pastilles and chewing gums.And if that still is not enough, we must offer drug treatments like the 'Champix'". "We have plenty of treatments that can help quench the urge to smoke," says Marion Adler.
But should we suddenly stop, or gradually reduce its consumption of cigarettes? "It depends on everyone," notes Marion Adler. "If you feel like you're at zero, it's going to be easier to close the nicotine receptors quickly and not want to go back to smoking." But, she says, "it must be without suffering." Thus, for those who wish to stop gradually, it is quite possible to combine the intake of tobacco with a treatment like the patch. "If you have a nicotine treatment and you cracked for a few cigarettes, it does not matter," reassures Marion Adler. "The most important thing is to go at your own pace," says the addictologist.