Brain zaps could help smokers kick the habit for good

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Patient who has given oral consent * Adult patient * Patient who wants to quit smoking * Patient with a smoking disorder (DSM-5 criteria) * Patient with at least 1 previous failed smoking cessation treatment with recommended medications (nicotine, vareniciline, or bupropion) Exclusion Criteria: * Patient not affiliated to the national health insurance system * Patient subject to a measure of legal protection (curatorship, guardianship) * Pregnant or breast-feeding woman * Patient of childbearing age with a positive pregnancy test at inclusion * Patients of legal age who are unable to express their consent * Patient abstinent in the previous 3 months * Patient with a substance use disorder (DSM-5 criteria) * Patient with a contraindication to TMS: personal history of seizure, pacemaker, neurosurgical clips, carotid or aortic clips, heart valves, hearing aids, ventricular shunt valves, sutures with wires or staples, foreign bodies in the eye, shrapnel, other prosthesis or cephalic ferromagnetic material * Patient employed in the addictology department of the CHU of Dijon (department of the principal investigator) * Patient with severe depression, defined by a score greater than or equal to 24 on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) * Patient having had a recent change (\< 1 month) in the prescription of a psychotropic treatment * Patients with severe and/or chronic psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, paranoia, and bipolar disorder types I and II * Patients with severe heart, kidney, liver or lung failure or other conditions that could compromise the patient's participation in the study in the opinion of the physician * Patient concurrently participating in another therapeutic trial * Patient who has already participated in a transcranial magnetic stimulation session