Borges Márcia Terezinha Trotta, Simões-Barbosa Regina Helena
Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Cad Saude Publica. 2008 Dec;24(12):2834-42. doi: 10.1590/s0102-311x2008001200012.
This article presents the main results of a study that examined the symbolic and material meanings of women's smoking, adopting a critical and qualitative gender approach. Semi-structured interviews were held with 14 women smokers in different stages of the smoking cessation process. The research locus was a tobacco treatment program located in a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The findings showed how deeply smoking is interwoven in these women's social and gender trajectories, playing a decisive support role when they have to deal with various difficulties in life. The cigarette as a "companion" emerged as the main empirical category, as something always available to quell anxiety and loneliness, as well as a source of pleasure and relaxation. The critical gender approach evidenced how women's reproductive and productive work overload reinforces their tobacco dependency. In health care, in order to attain women smokers' adherence to the arduous cessation process, it is crucial to consider the complex relations between social and gender dimensions when cigarettes are viewed as a "companion".
本文介绍了一项研究的主要结果，该研究采用批判性和定性的性别视角，审视了女性吸烟的象征意义和物质意义。对14名处于戒烟过程不同阶段的女性吸烟者进行了半结构化访谈。研究地点是巴西里约热内卢一家公立医院的烟草治疗项目。研究结果表明，吸烟在这些女性的社会和性别轨迹中交织得多么深入，在她们不得不应对生活中的各种困难时发挥着决定性的支持作用。香烟作为“伴侣”成为主要的实证类别，是随时可用来缓解焦虑和孤独的东西，也是快乐和放松的来源。批判性性别视角证明了女性生殖和生产工作的超负荷如何强化了她们对烟草的依赖。在医疗保健中，为了使女性吸烟者坚持艰苦的戒烟过程，当把香烟视为“伴侣”时，考虑社会和性别层面之间的复杂关系至关重要。
