Once the cigarette is out, not everything is sorted. The first months after quitting are a crossing, sometimes strange: your body recovers at top speed but your head has to mourn a habit installed over years — sometimes decades.

This category walks day by day with you through that phase. The complete timeline of how your body recovers (from 20 minutes to 10 years after the last cigarette), the average weight gain (3 to 4 kg, and how to reverse it), the paradoxical cough that sometimes shows up, the passing insomnia, the intense dreams, the irritability and the brain fog that last a few weeks, rebuilding a social life without a pack at hand, and grieving — no small thing — your identity as a smoker.

Everything you need to get through this period without relapsing, and to settle for good in your new life.