[Behavioral and cognitive therapy for social phobia in a smoker]. / Traitement d'une phobie sociale par thérapie comportementale et cognitive chez un tabagique.

INTRODUCTION: Social phobias are associated with nicotine addiction, and treatment for them can enable the patient to stop smoking. CASE: 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. DISCUSSION: Social phobias may be a factor in the onset of smoking and in the difficulties and relapses associated with cessation. They must be treated.