Why Doctor smokers test for you … smoking cessation for a month.
30 days without lighting a cigarette is the challenge launched to smokers by the Ministry of Health. The Tobacco-Free Self (s), of which Pourquoidocteur is a partner, offers during the month of November a whole system to help those who would like to try – once again? – to quit smoking. Our journalist, Marion Guérin, is determined to take up the challenge. Will she succeed? You will know it by reading the blog that it will feed during all this month.
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So there we are. In a few hours, October will end. The weekend was loaded with tobacco: I liquidated the packets at an indecent pace, hoping that the nicotine is stored somewhere in my body, so that it diffuses in prolonged release throughout the month of November. I relight a cigarette and doubt seizes me. But what did I get myself into? I really want to deflate.
It was October 6. I was returning from the press conference organized at the Ministry of Health to launch the “Tobacco-free Me (s)” and I admit, I was seduced. I unpacked my kit in the editorial office, I made jokes on the pin provided in the pocket, and in a burst of enthusiasm, I let go of the formula. “Come on, I do it”. It was the beginning of the month, and November seemed very far away to me.
The smoker’s inertia
There is some reluctance, that’s clear. Especially in terms of image. The national operation side, institutional movement … I am 27 years old and I know that the campaign targets young people as a priority, but it is a fact: at this age, we are less inclined to follow the initiatives of the authorities than to follow the initiatives of the authorities. fuck their mouths.
But hey, the operation is a hit in the United Kingdom, 200,000 people quit smoking for a month, including quite a few young people. And then anyway, there has to be a click, something that allows people to move from words to deeds. Because smoking is all the same to excel in the art of dodging: to avoid thinking about the absurd sums that one slap for a barely psychoactive product – from this point of view, I understand better alcoholism or cannabis use. – but smoking… so much money invested in an unnecessary addiction. What energy to forget the slow suicide, the Russian roulette, the gun that we load with each cigarette that we burn. It is all that, smoking: fleeing the obvious and refraining from acting.
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So we need an engine, even government. Here I am registered on Tabac Info Service, I downloaded the application, canceled all the aperitifs and other critical situations that could make me crack during this month – we will have the opportunity to talk again about the merits of this decision. In my madness, I took Jonathan, another journalist from the editorial staff, and Aurélien, the engineer. We’re very motivated, probably all a little freaked out. The entire editorial team fully supports me, but with one requirement: not to be more boring than usual!
My profile on Tabac Info Service
So let’s go for a month without tobacco, the story of which will be written on this blog (opening scheduled this week). We will test the tools and methods, we will describe the certain frustrations, perhaps the celebrations, the possible failures, but we do not want that. The info of Why actor on the tobacco-free ego (s) will be centralized there. And who knows, maybe these weaning trajectories will inspire others!
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