People with intellectual disabilities smoke more

A team led by Christine Muller-Saxon University of Melbourne conducted a study habits in 280 patients of psychiatric hospitals, most of whom had schizophrenia. It turned out that some of them smoke 62% - nearly four times more than in the general population of Australia, where only 16% of smokers do. On average, Australians with mental health problems smoke 22 cigarettes per day, and the "heaviest" smoker smokes 80 cigarettes a day. Want to quit smoking, not doing 59% mental and 12%, according to a press release from the University of Melbourne. The report states that according to the psychoanalyst, with smoking irritation of the oral (mouth) of the zone from which the child receives the first joy in life, while baby milk is saturated and gets a sense of security connected. From this position, smoke - is a sign of fear, desire to hide, to avoid stress. That's why smoking is more common among psychiatric patients than in the mental health, scientists say.