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Answers to your questions health prevention Smoking cessation

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If you get depressed because you stop smoking, what's in it for you?

Categories FAQ
Smoking cessation
Shutdown conditions
Consequences of the stop
Depression

When you stop smoking, it's common to feel depressed for a while. When you smoked, some of your neuronal receptors were used to being stimulated by nicotine, which acts as a stimulant. Nicotine withdrawal can therefore make you feel tired or depressed. This is only temporary, however, and should gradually fade away. Indulging yourself in other ways, taking up sport, congratulating yourself on the progress you've made, focusing on the benefits you've experienced (easier breathing, reborn sense of taste and smell) and the other advantages of quitting (savings, etc.) are all avenues you can explore to give your morale a boost.


For further information, we recommend that you consult :
- Tabac info service website
- The Santé Publique France website and its section on tobacco
- The "Ameli" 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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