Is smoking like socially acceptable cutting?

Question

I mean, we're hurting ourselves on purpose... sometimes it seems like the same kind of outlet as cutting.

Answer 1

Smoking, IMO, is disgusting. But, I know of people(mostly older) that when they started smoking, they didn't know it was a risk to their health; they didn't know they were hurting themselves. Now that they have been smoking for 40+ years, they find it nearly impossible to quit. People that start cutting, know that they are hurting themselves, I suppose it is quite obvious, right?
I don't see smoking as an outlet. I feel like that people start smoking because they are around it or see others doing it all the time. People usually don't start cutting themselves because they saw someone else do it.
However, there are a few people that say they feel better after smoking a cigarette, just like people say that they feel better after cutting themselves. And cutting is supposed to be very addicting just like nicotene, so I can see how you got the comparison between the two. But, I think they should be treated as two separate problems.

Answer 2

You do make a competent element. people who smoke, did no longer start up out to intentionally harm themselves. I used to smoke so i be attentive to. yet while somebody cuts themselves, they're attempting to harm themselves. you may think of this is only a small decrease and it will heal, yet what if the cutter accidentally hits a vein without determining it. they could bleed to dying and that they are going to be seen a suicide sufferer even nevertheless that wasn't their purpose. the two are undesirable for you, yet another subject with slicing is the intense risk of an infection in the decrease. people use all forms of grimy issues to diminish themselves. Like used razors, they're loaded with germs. I even have been a Psych nurse for 30 yrs and that i've got seen cutters get some nasty infections. My suggestion, dont' smoke, do no longer decrease.

Answer 3

the main purpose of smoking isn't to hurt yourself. Lots of people smoke for various reasons. To feel accepted, to ease off stress, addiction etc. The damage smoking does to your body is more of a side effect, you don't initially smoke to find satisfaction in feeling pain or wounding your precious body. Cutting or self mutilation, on the other hand is done for the purpose of hurting one's self and the act itself is actually a realization of mental illness. To all the self-mutilators and smokers out there, being grateful for what you've got just might help. Coz,our body is a perfect work of art and intelligence we can never surpass.
best regards, *recovering trichotilomaniac* (^_^)/

Answer 4

i think that in some ways cutting, drinking, drugs, and smoking are all related. it's just that cutting is the only one that's not socially acceptable.
most people who cut aren't doing to because they want to hurt themselves. it's because they have some much emotional pain that they don't know how to control it, so they SI because then they can control the pain they feel and in a lot of cases numb the pain that they can't control

Answer 5

There are alot socially accepted things that are self destructive including smoking. People are allowed and do consume harmful things because it gives them satisfaction. Other examples:

-Alcohol
-Fast Food
-Tanning Salons