Abstract
Nicotine replacement therapies remain the main validated treatment to stop smoking. Nevertheless, treatment acceptance deals with patients negative representations. This "nicotinophobia" could be the main barrier to treatment acceptance and as a consequence would be at the origin of numerous failures of smoking cessation. We estimated the efficiency of an educational collective workshop to fight against nicotinophobia in patients smokers hospitalized for cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation. Smoking cessation was significantly improved in patients who participated at the workshop (81vs. 48%), associated with a significant decrease of anxiety-depression scores, and without significant weight gain (average loss of 2.8kg). Educational approaches seem to help a majority of patient smokers to stop smoking, without anxiety and without weight gain. These results encourage the creation of a real therapeutic educational program dedicated to smoking cessation.
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