Can tobacco addiction lead to other addictions?
Tobacco addiction can lead to other addictions, as addictions to psychoactive substances (tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, etc.) are often associated. On the one hand, at the physical level, these substances act on neuronal receptors that communicate with each other. Secondly, on a behavioral level, smoking is often linked to a certain context, and will be associated with the consumption of another substance. In France, for example, 90% of alcohol addicts are smokers, compared with 30% of the general population.
For further information, we recommend that you consult :
- Tabac info service website
- The Santé Publique France website and its section on tobacco
- The "Amelie" health insurance website 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