Quit smoking together for 30 days. In Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, we didn’t wait until November to launch the annual No Tobacco Month campaign. “The Montpellier Cancer Institute (which coordinates this campaign with the ARS in Occitanie) wanted to intervene this year in rural areas explains Sandrine Pellegrino, health mission manager at the Community of Communes of Pays d’Uzès. Because residents have less access to this type of information“. A stand was therefore set up in the town during the weekly market. With a doctor, a nurse, a psychologist and a nurse-hypnotherapist. All ready to provide advice to anyone who wants to quit smoking. “We can stop alone confides Yann Queyranne, general practitioner, but it’s better if you’re accompanied. There is less recidivism.“
Health and the price of tobacco, as reasons to stop
Stéphanie came to find out. She has been smoking since the age of 17 and wants to stop for health reasons. “I roll around ten cigarettes a day. I feel pleasure for the first one, but not for the others. It’s just a mechanism that we put in place.” Franck has been smoking for around twenty years. It is for financial reasons that he wants to stop. He leaves with an anti-stress ball and a nicotine gum that Cécyle Commeau-Montasse has just given him , nurse at the ASALE association.” It’s very effective, but it’s not enough. This calms the physiological dependence but afterwards, we must discuss the smoker’s habits, how he manages his emotions and find strategies so that he can stop. The longer we wait, the more difficult it is.” In France, one in four adults continues to smoke. Tobacco is still the cause of 73,000 premature deaths per year.
The No Tobacco Month stand will be on the Esplanade d’Uzès this Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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Sylvie Duchesne
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