[auveair]

> And to be real, the wonderful smell acts on your parasympathic nervous system because of appetite, for the smell is associated with roasted food. Add to that the childish reflex of sucking on a nipple. So it is pretty much an eating disorder, in my humble opinion.

Even Freud once said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". There is no scientific basis for the whole "oral fixation", so calling it "childish" is pretty ignorant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_stage

Edit: "Contradicting the Freudian psychosexual development concept of oral-stage fixation, the Duration of Breast-feeding and the Incidence of Smoking (2003) study of 87 participants reported no causal relation between the breast-feeding period and whether or not a child matures into a person who smokes."

[posterboy]

I wondered for a moment if there is less denigrating, more technical word, but haven't found one.

The suckling reflex is obvious. But I didn't mean to say grow out of it. Just don't give in.