When you stop smoking, short-, medium- and long-term changes occur in your body. For example, 20 minutes after the first cigarette, blood pressure and heart rate drop. After 24 hours, the body has eliminated nicotine from tobacco. Two days later, taste and smell are already improving. And in the weeks and months following quitting, you breathe better and feel less and less out of breath when you exert yourself. Over time, the risk of tobacco-related illnesses diminishes, and life expectancy returns to that of people who have never smoked.

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