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Answers to your questions health prevention Smoking cessation

Contents validated by the physicians of the Scientific College of the Ramsay Health Foundation

What happens immediately in the body when you stop smoking?

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Smoking cessation
Consequences of the stop

20 minutes after the first cigarette, blood pressure and heart rate drop. After 12 hours without tobacco, carbon monoxide levels in the blood return to normal. After 24 hours, the body has eliminated nicotine from tobacco.


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

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