The best way to avoid becoming addicted to nicotine is obviously to do not start to smoke. Several socio-educational campaigns are orchestrated each year by government authorities (see Sites of interest). Much effort is focused on young people, with adolescence being a time when the majority of smokers burn their first. cigarette and develop their smoking habits.

Some laboratories seek to create vaccines whose role would be to reduce the sensitivity of the brain to nicotine. However, it will be several years before these vaccines are released to the market.