Dramatic increase in the price of the pack of cigarettes, good resolutions, tired of cigarette breaks in the cold and in the rain ... So many reasons that we often want to say goodbye to the cigarette.

Yes, but if it was easy to stop smoking, that would be known. Yet every day, thousands of French people succeed. How do they do ? To find out, we went to interrogate them. Their smoky secrets to say stop smoking.

Corine, 37: "Farewell my ex"

"Former smoker, I took the cigarette in contact with my ex, a big smoker before the Lord.After the breakup, I told myself that I had already lost three years of my life because of this crazy ... I was not going to get cancer of my lungs either because of him! "

Grégoire, 42: "Thanks to my daughter's thumb"

"This summer, I told my 7-year-old daughter that now she was a grown-up girl, she had to stop sucking her thumb, and she said to me, 'Okay, but you, you stop smoking. ' I said yes without thinking too much.This same evening, she was sticking a plaster on the thumb and finally stopped her 'addiction' I was stuck, and had to end mine ... She had me well "

Celine, 42: "My boyfriend was my savior"

"My new darling does not smoke, he stopped ten years ago, and in his presence, my cunts did not taste as much as in the presence of my fellow smokers ... Smoking alone, it spoils the pleasure ... J stopped quickly. "

Valérie, 39 years old: "You'll never stay"

"One day, I decided to quit for a bunch of good reasons - the same as everyone else, certainly - when I announced it to the office, all proud, my boss looked at me with disdain and swayed: 'Pff, you'll never hold' I did not already like him very much, but now I thought it was so bad that I thought, 'Well, you're going to see what you're going to see. .. 'Result, thanks to him, I never retouched to a cigarette. "

Marie, 32: "The family, the best support"

"I was very scared to try to quit, thinking it was impossible, that the weaning would be terrible, at the limit of the cameo rehab to the heroine.And then one day, my father stopped smoking overnight, thanks to Allen Carr's book, he had been smoking for 40 years, it reassured me, and made me curious.Sure, for it to work, you really have to want to stop, and to read delivers slowly, but it works. "

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Soizic, 31: "What's more radical than a pregnancy?"

"Elementary but radical: for me, the click was my positive pregnancy test"

Sophie, 43: "Thank you my son"

"I knew that I was going to stop the day I learned that my son was smoking with his friends, and even in his room, on my back, and you talk about an example, I smoked every day under his How to tell him to stop being credible? I crushed the last three months ago, and still not plunged back. "

Nicolas, 38: "A proof of love"

I stopped for love and it worked. I decided to convert the cigarette budget into gifts for my future wife and that was the best motivation. Fifteen years later, we are still happy and I have not transplanted.

Rose, 22: "Between the cold and the cigarette, I quickly made my choice"

"Great clubber, I stopped the cigarette shortly after the ban on smoking in public places in January 2008: when I had to choose between going out to smoke under the snow in dress, or lock me in a sordid jar and unresponsible with other nicotine crazies, the cunt suddenly had a lot less charm to me "

Bruno, 30: "Farewell to gloomy places"

"One day, I taxed a cigarette to a colleague, not my usual mark, I had to smoke it in the emergency staircase of our society, the sacred haunt of smokers, and especially ... the place The most gloomy of the building, the cigarette was filthy, so was the staircase, my mind associated the two, and it disgusted me, and like that, sometimes things go wrong. "

Chichi, 28: "Why put on perfume and ruin everything with the smell of tobacco?"

"One day, a very elegant woman passed right in front of me, she had just smoked a strong cigarette, and the smell was absolutely despicable, I had just bought my perfume (I wear Chanel N ° 5). I looked down at my package and wondered why it was such a luxurious scent to spoil it with a poisonous smell of tobacco.That was six years ago, and I've never been smoking since. a few pounds, which I look at as symbols of life, like a kilo equals 10 years of winning, and of course, I feel delightfully good. "

Stéphane, 39 years old: "I did not want to be an anguished cig."

"It was a Sunday morning, and when I saw the heads of people waiting anxiously for the opening of the tobacco racks, I decided never to relive moments like that."

Caroline, 27: "Smoking was sickening me"

"I went on a road trip to Israel, two months of extreme heat: 50 ° in the desert, for the first time in my life, smoking was sickening me, I did not smoke, convinced that I would resume soon first day on the French floor.The day I came back, I lit a cigarette and ... found it filthy.I thought I'd smoke again when I wanted, and the envy never came back, I still can not believe it, a miracle of the wailing wall? "

Flora, 35: "Stress has been my way out"

"For work, I had to go to Senegal, and so, take the anti-malaria treatment." Bad news: I was treated to side effects, with big anxiety and anxiety attacks. so stressed that at the airport I decided to stop smoking, but I had just bought my two regulatory cartridges and I think it was a help and a security to be able to stop smoking with lots of packs under the elbow just in case, but I never, ever plunged back. "

Catherine 38: "My father's cancer was a trigger"

"I put my package on the day my dad told me he had cancer, it was ten years ago."

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Julie, 29: "I realized that life was precious"

"I stopped smoking after the death of my 18-year-old cousin, who died from a long illness, and that evening I realized that life was precious and I wanted to enjoy it for as long as I could I stopped, overnight, and stopped asking questions about anything and everything

Sophie, 34: "I thought I was dying on a Sunday morning"

"Very big smoker (I chained the cunts faster than my shadow since I was 15 years old), I thought I would die one Sunday morning after a very wet evening ... Painful point near the heart, whole tobacco office in the mouth, I I did not smoke the day, nor the Monday, nor the Tuesday ... When I saw that I held, and that I woke up the morning with the I want to go for a 100 meters, I continued my momentum! I'm going to celebrate my three years, and the icing on the cake is that in addition, it made me lose weight.Incompréhensible, I know But it's the detail that kills to motivate girlfriends! "

Jasmine, 19: "I wanted to be immune to the flu"

"It's a bit silly, but I quit this fall, after reading a study saying that non-smokers were better protected against the H1N1 flu epidemic, I do not know why, did not care Since I've been frightened, today I think I have to thank her: she has freed me from my ashtray. "

Daniela, 40: "I am this class girl, without a cigarette in her hand"

"It was very nice, I was on the terrace of a restaurant Before me, two girls, one smoked, the other not, I looked at the smoker with envy, telling me that his cigarette gave him some I was also mad at her for smoking so freely while I had just stopped, and then I looked at the other, who was not smoking, and there, clicked: she looked as nice as his girlfriend, and showed as much pace, but ... without cigarette .. Since then, I am this girl class, no cigarette in hand.

Claude, 35: "I pretended it was a game"

"One morning, I thought, 'What if you do not turn on that one?' At noon: 'Awesome, did you hold until noon, not cap' to hold until 5 pm? 'And so on until the evening The next morning, I was so proud to have held a day without crap I tried to hold one more day And so on ... It's been six years that lasts ... Strangely, it opened up a "field of possibilities". Because the year after, I took care of my extra pounds, with exactly the same technique. I lost 25 kg in six months. For the moment, let's touch some wood, I did not take them back, and I never took a cigarette. "

Stéphanie, 26: "I let this annoyance ripen in my head"

Six years ago I quit smoking Six years of freedom Two years ago, I realized how much I was ultra addicted to tobacco, just like a toxic drug can be with its 'hard' product. I did not like this idea of ​​addiction, and hated the idea of ​​losing control, I had to let go of that hold, it took a while, I let this annoyance ripen in my head, and a day, I finally liberated.

Géraldine, 31: "It all started with a broken leg"

"I smoked a pack a day, but secretly: even my husband did not know, one day I broke my leg: impossible to get out of the house, and my husband, in addition, works at home. Two weeks later, when I went back to the office, I thought it was too stupid to take a cigarette while the hard part was done. I hear the expression 'I would have done better to break a leg': sometimes it's very good to break a leg. "

Agnès, 33: "I quit smoking for no reason"

"My story is very weird, but apparently quite common: I quit smoking for no particular reason! I was just driving, open window, it was the nice month of May 2007, and suddenly I thought: 'It's the last !' It was the right moment, the one I chose, that's all. "

François, 38: "Thank you Allen Carr"

"After 15 years at a pack a day, and three false attempts to stop, I felt ready to stop for good, along with my girlfriend, so we bought Allen Carr's book, which we had I heard a lot of talk, and poof! A week later we stopped at the same time, it was 6 years ago, and I have never smoked since then, the worst thing is that was so easy that I wonder why I did not do it earlier, so much I find it ridiculous now, and I can not remember being a smoker anymore. "

Elodie, 32: "I did not want to enrich the state anymore"

"I quit smoking 7 years ago when I was quietly on vacation at the seaside: I had just learned a first (huge) increase in the pack of cigarettes, which would be followed by others as well. Every year, the state receives about 10 billion euros of taxes from the sale of tobacco, and I do not give them a cent to ruin my health. "

Anna, 28: "Cigarettes or super appart ', the choice was quickly made"

"The apartment of my dreams had just been released.Alas, his rent was 200 € more than that of my current apartment, impossible for me to provide this rate.For fun, my sister said: ' 200 €, it's all that you spend on tobacco every month, stop smoking and you'll have it, your great apartment! "It made click in my head I crushed my cigarette, called the real estate agency, and today, not only I love my home, but in addition, it smells good. "