title: [Behavioral and cognitive therapy for social phobia in a smoker].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Social phobias are associated with nicotine addiction, and treatment for them can enable the patient to stop smoking.
  
  
  METHODS
  A patient seeking treatment to stop smoking was found to have a social phobia, which was treated with behavioral and cognitive therapy. At the end of this treatment, the patient spontaneously and without aids stopped smoking.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Social phobias may be a factor in the onset of smoking and in the difficulties and relapses associated with cessation. They must be treated.
authors.affiliation: Centre de tabacologie, Centre hospitalier de Béziers (34). philippe.guichenez@ch-beziers.fr
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Guichenez
authors.forename: Gilbert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lagrue
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Clauzel
authors.forename: Gilbert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Germaini
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dupont
authors.forename: Anne-Marie
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Clauzel
mesh_terms: D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention