Prepare for Tobacco Free Month with tools to help you meet this challenge!

In 2024, registration for the Challenge is simplified, smoking cessation tools are at the center of the campaign, including the promotion of the phone number 39,89 to help you quit smoking. Again this year, the interest and benefits for smokers to be supported and to engage together in a smoke-free approach is highlighted with the slogan: " You weren’t alone when you started, you won’t be alone to stop ”.

By registering before 1^er november on the website Smoke-free month, you can participate in the preparatory phase of the operation and benefit from:

• consultation with a tobacco cessation professional;
• a free quit kit including a 40-day program (10 days of preparation and 30 days of challenge) with daily tips to help you quit, a wheel to calculate your savings and information on all the tools available to help you;
• of a community of mutual assistance present on social networks (Facebook, X - formerly Twitter and Instagram) to promote smoking cessation.

In addition, you can download the free Tabac info service mobile app. You will benefit from a personalized support program, advice from tobacco specialists, mini-games and support videos. You will be able to see the daily benefits of quitting smoking, in terms of savings and health.

What are the benefits of quitting smoking for 30 days?

Quit smoking for a month multiplies the odds of quitting by 5 definitely to use tobacco, according to various studies. Beyond 30 days, withdrawal symptoms (nervousness, irritability) are greatly reduced.

Health Insurance reports that the first effects of quitting smoking are apparent within the first few days:

• 24 hours after smoking your last cigarette, carbon monoxide is completely removed from your body, your lungs start to chase smoke residues and your body no longer contains nicotine (withdrawal syndrome may then occur);

• within a few days, your taste and smell improve, you breathe better and your energy increases.

Then, after 3 to 9 months:

• breathing problems and coughing are relieved. Your voice becomes clearer and you become less and less breathless;
• gradually, your complexion becomes lighter, your wrinkles are less pronounced and your teeth are whiter;
• you become calmer and no longer feel the physical effects of nicotine (accelerated heartbeat...).

Then, after a year without tobacco, risk of myocardial infarction decreases by half and risk of stroke is similar to that of a nonsmoker. The risk of lung cancer also decreases. This reduction in risk is all the more important if we stop early, but it is also significant if we stop later. At age 75, the risk of death from lung cancer is

• 16% among those who continue to smoke;
• 6% for those who stopped at age 50;
• and 2% for those who quit by age 30.

Generally, quitting smoking at age 40 increases life expectancy by an average of 7 years, quitting at age 50 increases life expectancy by 4 years, and those quitting at age 60 gain an average of 3 years.