After Mois Sans Tabac: how to stay smoke-free beyond the 30 days
The challenge ends on November 30th, quitting doesn't. What research says about the weeks that follow, and why that's often where everything really gets decided.
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134,000 registrations in 2024, 2.35 million cumulative participants since 2016, a smoke-free month said to multiply lasting quit chances by five: what the figures published by Santé publique France show.
Read article · 4 min readThe challenge ends on November 30th, quitting doesn't. What research says about the weeks that follow, and why that's often where everything really gets decided.
The first weeks of November are often decided back in October. A concrete checklist for arriving at November 1st ready, instead of jumping in on a whim the night before.
"I can't focus on anything anymore": a rarely anticipated side effect of the first days without smoking, but thankfully temporary, and followed by a clear improvement.
Every November, hundreds of thousands of smokers in France attempt to quit at the same time. A collective challenge imported from the UK, with results more solid than one might assume.
Amandine had smoked on her balcony for ten years without her children knowing, or so she believed. She shares the weight of that secret, and what finally made her decide to quit.