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Smoking is an emotional crutch
The snuff is nowadays one of the substances toxic to most lay unconscious expectations is possibly due to the economic interests of the tobacco industry and social permissiveness for use. ‘s success is based on consumption that serves as a placebo (or delusion) that helps them cope with emotional life. The human being as an integral part of nature, is subject to the same forces that govern it: the life and death. Both forces constitute us as individuals and their management is undoubtedly a consequence of our personality. Smoking, we all know, is a self-destructive act, since their physical consequences are proven, but there are a large number of smokers in spite of the information about the damage this action. It is common that during the funeral of someone who died from lung cancer as a result of their smoking, attendees and even closer to the deceased relatives smoke, ignoring the most obvious consequences of their addiction at the time. The act of smoking is, in this circumstance, a process of identification with the deceased and also a comfort that goes beyond the death instinct.
The man fights from the first moment of his life against death, life is colored by the way it shuns the act or fight the inevitable ending his days. However, their struggle is not always allied with life activities, sometimes self-destructive activities and choose their way of life or, rather, to survive death. Any addiction is an attempt to survive in certain circumstances and smoking is one of many addictions. From the field psychoanalytic note that smoking presents oral fixations on the stage of his life. This stage begins at birth and prevails about two years, during which time poking things in their mouths and so are known.
In addition to things or objects, the baby is fed through the oral cavity so that its vital energy is deposited in this organ to feed, grow and see the world. The activity of sucking or sucking, in addition to being an innate reflex, also integrates emotions. When the baby drinks the milk, is also eating and sucking the affection with which it is fed. In this context, smoking is an oral activity in addition to meeting the physical requirements of nicotine in the body, meets emotional functions for the smoker who could be compared to a baby with his mouth attached to a pacifier or nipple, satisfying emotional needs yesteryear. Just as the child who acts out and quiets only with the pacifier in his mouth, smoking fulfills the same function in the adult. Read the rest of this entry »