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Answers to your questions health prevention Smoking cessation

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Is smoking a source of stress?

Categories FAQ
Smoking cessation
Reasons for stopping
Stress
General

If you're stressed and want to stop smoking, the two are not mutually exclusive. Quitting smoking also means quitting nicotine. Nicotine is an exciting substance. Quitting smoking will make you feel calmer and less stressed in your day-to-day life. A feeling of stress may appear in the first days/months of quitting smoking, due to the sensation of withdrawal, and can be managed with nicotine substitutes. To manage your stress and help you stop smoking, we recommend that you take part in sporting activities, relaxation exercises or other similar methods.


For further information, we recommend that you consult :

- Le site info tabac
- Tabac info service website
- The Santé Publique France website and its section on tobacco
- The "Amelie" health insurance site and its thematic file on tobacco


And more specifically, the resources you can consult to stop smoking:

- Tabac info service: the application that suggests ways to stop smoking, which you can download here.
- 3889: a free telephone service staffed by tobaccologists, Monday to Saturday, 8am to 8pm.
- A tobaccologist: a professional who can help you quit under the right conditions, easily found on the tabac info service website here

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