INTERVIEW
How to stop? The "Month without tobacco" has just opened. For the fourth consecutive year, during the month of November, smokers are invited to give up smoking for 30 days, and to support each other. At the end of a month without a cigarette, the chances of stopping permanently would be multiplied by five. And to achieve this, stop aid kits are distributed free of charge in 18,000 pharmacies in the area.
"All the means to stop are good, we are all different, in an addiction, we must never confuse the product, which is always the same, and the people who are different, with different lifestyles", explains Jean- Pierre Couteron, addictologist and spokesman of the Federation addiction. At the microphone of Europe 1, this psychologist, himself a former smoker, details the advantages and disadvantages of the various substitutes currently available on the market to help smokers quit.
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Patches and chewing gum with nicotine
"These are the most well-known means, they involve a number of stops and have the advantage of allowing users to continue to have nicotine.The disadvantage, for some, is that nicotine It does not happen in the blood at the same speed as when you smoke.The gap that gives the substitute that we do not always feel good and this can cause some relapses.
E-cigarette
"Vaping is a step above nicotine substitutes The e-cigarette has gotten rid of tobacco and harmful substances Nicotine is transported through the body by the technique of vaping which removes combustion, which is dangerous. The user gets his nicotine dose faster and more intensely, and is more quickly balanced. "
Medication
"Here too, there is progress in fact, hence the interest, when we have not found a shoe to his foot, to find a tobacco specialist, who can direct you to this or that track."