Body Language of Smoking Body Language
Cue: Smoking Body Language
Synonym(s): Deep Smoking, Quick Puff Of Cigarette, Cigarette Blown Up or Down.
Description: The method by which smoking cigarettes occurs such as quick or slow puffs, deep or shallow, with exhalation up or down, can indicate hidden thoughts.
In One Sentence: Smoking body language may give off cues of underlying emotion depending on how it is done.
How To Use it: See Meaning and/or Motivation for clues as to how you might signal nonverbally while smoking.
Context: General.
Verbal Translation: See Meaning and/or Motivation.
Variant: See Blowing Off Steam.
Cue In Action: See Meaning and/or Motivation.
Meaning and/or Motivation: An addictive habit that sometimes serves as an oral fix to sooth discomfort. Some have said that smoking is a replacement to the comfort brought about by thumb-sucking. Reading the body language of smoking serves to indicate hidden underlying emotions.
A deep inhalation signals the desire to be sedated and calmed when under pressure.
A quick puff show a desire to stimulate the brain and get to work. This person might be seen picking up and putting the cigarette down as if agitated.
Quick exhalation with smoke blown upwards shows positive thoughts, while smoke blown down shows negative thoughts.
Slow exhalation is a sign of an increase in consideration.
Conversely, those who smoke are often conscious of the wind direction and will blow smoke such that it does not waft into the faces of nearby non-smokers. Thus, they may blow smoke in the most contentious way. If this is done, it shows that a person is caring of others.
Cue Cluster: Watch for accompanying signals depending on the way in which smoking occurs to verify the emotional message.
Body Language Category: Amplifier, Aggressive body language, Comfort body language, Confident body language, Emotional body language, Negative body language, Pacifying body language, Stressful body language.
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