Do you wear a patch but still feel a strong urge to smoke? It's possible that this craving is linked to an underdose of nicotine in your patch. Contact your healthcare professional to review the dosage with him or her. However, the urge to smoke is a perfectly normal phenomenon when you've just given up smoking. In general, the urge to smoke lasts only a few minutes, during which time you can do anything to resist it: move to another room, go for a walk, drink a glass of water, take a nicotine gum, etc.

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