What is the place of the electronic cigarette when we want to stop smoking? Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg came to the Melun hospital to plead the cause and the newspaper " The Republic of Seine et Marne Was there to cover the event.
80 000 DEAD PER YEAR FROM TOBACCO
The vapotage for help with smoking cessation ... The very media professor Bertrand Dautzenberg, a pulmonologist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital and a tobacco specialist, held a conference on Monday, March 13, at the Marc-Jacquet de Melun hospital center with professionals from the hospital center.
Invited by the doctors Muriel Lemaire (care center and prevention in addiction) and Virginie Loiseaux (addictology center) the conference was aimed at health professionals. " When a smoker asks his doctor for advice, often this one does not know if it is good or not to advise the electronic cigarette He recalled.
Hence the need to discuss the subject with professionals with this specialist called "the lawyer of vaping" by the national press. " If tobacco brings 15 between 20 and 80 € million to the State, it is also the cause of 000 XNUMX deaths per year in France, underlined Dominique Peljak, the director of the hospital. Prevention is of major importance but also the fact of getting rid of tobacco. »
E-CIGARETTE, A SOLUTION TO REDUCE OR LEAVE TOBACCO
For the pulmonologist, the abrupt withdrawal of nicotine is out of fashion. " The electronic cigarette is a solution so that the smoker can lower his consumption of cigarettes while remaining in the satisfaction, insists the professor Bertrand Dautzenberg. The notion of pleasure is obligatory otherwise the results are inconclusive. »
According to the pulmonologist, about 20% of smokers use an electronic cigarette: these can also contain nicotine, in order to gradually reduce the quantity and therefore the dependence. " If we compare the situation in time, there are two times months of people under 50 years who smoke between 2017 and 2013 "Says Bertrand Dautzenberg.
If he does not deny a fashion phenomenon, he also discusses the issue of consumption of shisha, particularly popular among young people and that the electronic cigarette can also compensate. And to conclude: " I am convinced that the e-cigarette is the essential tool for weaning. A message he spreads including his book published in January where he discusses The pleasure of quitting smoking.
