Tobacco-free month: how to stop smoking?

2023-11-29 09:00:05

According to the WHO, tobacco causes more than 8 million deaths each year. Among these 8 million victims, 1.3 million are non-smokers unintentionally exposed to tobacco smoke. Lung cancers, COPD, ENT or bladder cancer, myocardial infarction, respiratory failure… Tobacco is responsible for many diseases.

What are the effects of tobacco on the health of smokers and those around them? How to quit smoking ? How can you help a loved one who wants to quit? On the occasion of No Tobacco Month, listeners of the show ask their questions to a specialist doctor.

  • Pr Bertrand Dautzenberg, tobacco specialist at theArthur Vernes Institute in Paris.
  • Professor Alexandre Boko Kouassipulmonologist and head of the Smoking Cessation Support Unit at Cocody University Hospitalin Ivory Coast.

► At the end of the program, we invite you to go to Senegal, on the occasion of the first African Forum on Well-being, which takes place in Thiès from November 29 to 1is December 2023. Interview with Carina Ndiaye – The Best Of Carinadirector of the Tostan partnership.

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