Women are more likely than men to use cigarettes, food, alcohol and other drugs to cope with negative emotions such as stress, depression and anxiety, tension and anger. Melancholy women are more likely to eat, smoke and blame themselves than melancholy men, but men are more likely to be aggressive, alienated and have sex. ?
Studies have pointed out that when they try to quit smoking, they are more anxious than men, and the probability of relapse seems to be greater. Although this may be due to weight gain or front pressure, some researchers believe that women like smoking to solve negative emotions, especially when they are angry, women are prone to start smoking and relapse. Women often continue to smoke when they encounter negative emotions such as anger and stress. As for men, they usually start smoking in positive social situations, so this fact can better support this theory. ?
According to Dr. Bernards of Michigan State University: Anger and trying to eliminate anger should be the symptoms and maladjusted behaviors of women at present: from depression to inhibition of action and creativity, from empathy to sexual behavior.
She and many theoretical scholars believe that the powerful force produced by the combination of society and psychology makes it impossible for women to express their inner anger or even admit their anger.
Angry women are still considered unattractive and unattractive. She may have been transferred? Sharp? Or? Being a bitch? This label, but this adjective will never be used to describe an angry man. Since anger is one of the biggest taboos for women, we learn to suppress anger and vent it on ourselves. This process has been experienced by all repressed human beings and recorded in history. Anyone who was abused in childhood, whether sexually, physically or mentally, often has resentment, although it may be unconscious anger.
How do we deal with inner anger (or it has turned into depression after being suppressed)? Why not have a cigarette or have another cake? Perhaps one of the reasons why women fail to quit smoking is that smoking is inseparable from repressed anger. What method is easier to calm down than smoking or eating? This is one of the few methods that women are most accepted by society when dealing with anger and frustration.
In the book "Black Lady: Why Smoking is a Feminist Problem" published by British scholar Bobbie Jacobson in 1982, she quoted a report and found that most women feel that they are in? Uncomfortable or angry about something? , or when they? Angry, ashamed or embarrassed? 、? Don't want to worry anymore? When you are young, you will start smoking. Lorraine Greaves, a Canadian researcher, found that many women smoke to slow down their emotional reactions, calm themselves down and suppress all emotions and thoughts. Some women describe this as a? Swallow it back angrily? . ?
In the magazine Teenagers published in 1998 1 month, an article entitled "Why smoking is a real stumbling block" was published. At first, a girl named Roland just had a big fight with her friends on the weekend night:
Roland was very angry. She threw away the phone, walked to the front door, sat on the steps and lit a cigarette. ? It calms me down and helps me think. ? That's what she said when she mentioned smoking habits. ? As long as I smoke, I can go home, call my friends and get things done. If I hadn't smoked a cigarette, I might have called her directly and yelled at her. Then, tonight will definitely get out of hand. Smoking helps me control my emotions. My problems still exist, but I'm not so nervous anymore. ?
So a cigarette keeps Roland from being a mess tonight. But at what cost? Addiction to drugs that may cause cancer and heart disease. In other words, pay the price of life.