Inquiry: why people smoke?
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Which is the nature of this psychological pleasure? It can be traced with the universal desire for the free expression. None us becomes too large for always completely its childhood. We drive out constantly for the insousiant pleasure which we knew like children. While we age, we had to subordinate our pleasures of working and with the need for the ceaseless effort. Smoking, for good number among us, then, became a substitute product for our practice early to follow the whims of the moment; this becomes a legitimate excuse for the work of interruption and to seize one moment of the pleasure. You sometimes is tired working intensely, said countable that we interviewed, and if you sit down behind for the length of a cigarette, you feel much fresher afterwards. Wouldn him the ‘thing particular of SA, but of I ‘t thinks of resting just behind without cigarettes. I guess that a cigarette gives me way or of other a good excuse. 
Most of us are hungry for rewards. We want to be patted on the back. A cigarette is a reward that we can give ourselves as often as we wish. When we have done anything well, for instance, we can congratulate ourselves with a cigarette, which certifies, in effect, that we have been “good boys.” We can promise ourselves: “When I have finished this piece of work, when I have written the last page of my report, I’ll deserve a little fun. I’ll have a cigarette.”
As we have said, to explain the pleasure derived from smoking as taste experience alone, is not sufficient. For one thing, such an explanation leaves out the powerful erotic sensitivity of the oral zone. Oral pleasure is just as fundamental as sexuality and hunger. It functions with full strength from earliest childhood.
A cigarettes not only measures time, but also seems to make time pass more rapidly. That is why waiting periods almost autuomatically stimulate the desire to smoke. But a deeper explanation of this function of smoking is based on the fact that smoking is ersatz activity. Impatience is a common feature of our times, but there are many situations which compel us to be patient. When we are in a hurry, and yet have to wait, a cigarette gives us something to do during that trying interval. The experience of wanting to act, but being unable to do so, is very unpleasant and may even, in extreme cases, cause attacks of nervous anxiety. Cigarettes may then have a psychotherapeutic effect. This helps to explain why soldiers, waiting for the signal to attack, sometimes value a cigarette more than food.