The fight against smoking is a public health priority. Without help, fewer than 5% of des smokers are abstinent at 12 months after smoking cessation. Despite well-managed attempts at smoking cessation with nicotine substitutes, the rate of success at 12 months in patients dependent on nicotine is only 18%. Moreover, other therapeutic strategies (acupuncture, hypnosis…) have not proved to be effective. The investigators propose a new therapeutic strategy for smoking cessation, which is based on associating nicotine substitutes (to reduce physical symptoms of weaning from nicotine) with rTMS at 1 Hz to the right DorsoLateral PreFrontal Cortex (DLPFC) for 2 weeks (to diminish craving for tobacco). The principal objective is to improve the success rate for smoking cessation attempts in patients who are highly dependent on nicotine, and who have failed using usual smoking cessation strategies.
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Change from Baseline score of Tabacco Craving Questionnaire (TCQ)
Timeframe: at Week 0, Week 1, Week 2, Week 6 and Week 12 after stimulation