Smoking and ENT are intimately linked. These resources are for all smokers.

November 2022, like every year, is the month without tobacco and this year we will be at the 7th edition. The various speakers have prepared their weapons well in advance praising the benefits of nicotine substitutes in all its forms (patches, gums, lozenges), there hypnosis, acupuncture, the Allen Carr method, behavioral and cognitive therapies…

Appeared in 2007, the first electronic cigarettes, or vapoteuses, arrive on the French market in 2010. We currently have more than 10 years of hindsight on this product and its impact on the cessation of smoking for…

Before we begin, a few common sense reminders : what is dangerous about tobacco ? Everything and the opposite of everything has been put forward, including the paper that coats the tobacco and the nicotine. The smoke from the roasted tobacco, measured by a tobacco machine, deposits its microparticles on a filter, turning it brown. This condensate contains nicotine, water vapor and a mixture of…

As far as we know, the product responsible for the addiction to tobacco is nicotine. Nicotine is a natural pesticide secreted by tobacco plants (but not only). This plant, native to South America, can reach two meters high. Its leaves are green tender, evoking a little the leaf of spinach. It is necessary to cut the flowering tops so that the leaves develop and are…

In view of current events, it seems interesting to review the effects of tobacco and nicotine on the body and to look at what is currently emerging from the first studies on patients hospitalized with serious cases of COVID-19. This article, proposed by an ENT physician and tobaccologist, reviews what is currently known formally as well as the hypotheses formulated following the first findings of…