Can cutting be a lifestyle choice?!

Can cutting be a lifestyle choice?

Please, serious answers only please.
People use a lot of different methods to cope with stress. Some don't eat, some overeat (a BIG problem in the US), some have anxiety attacks, some smoke, and some people cut tehmselves, or self-mutilate. Now, being overweight and underweight, and smoking, are generally frowned upon, yet accepted in modern society, so why can't cutting be considered to be an outlet for stress? Smoking leads to millions of deaths for year, and most cutters tend to be very calculating, so many can go for years without having an accident that puts them in the ER.
Serious answers only, please. It was just a thought I was having.

1 week ago
I'm not a cutter and I've never personally known one. I'm taking a course over summer semester and I started thinking, that's all

1 week ago
Congratulations on quitting smoking, delicious. My father just quit after 40 years!

1 week ago
Holy Man: Being overweight is majority of the time voluntary. I can pick up a knife, a cigarette, or a burger everyday. Each one has consequences. After three months of doing none I won't have open cuts, or my lungs will clear, or I'll be thinner. Each one is a vice, so why put a value judgement on it?

1 week ago
A smoker's health or an obese person's physical health can decline quickly as the years go by. A cutter can cut their whole lives and never experience more than scarring and minor infections. They're not compounded over time, they're just unsitely and the cutter will aquire more the more they cut.
I think it's safe to say all of the things I have mentioned will only cover up ny mental problems rather than solve them, as they're all coping methods.

I believe that cutting and overeating and even drug use all come from trying to find a coping mechanism to deal with your stress. I personally have battled drug addiction and hurting myself in hopes of letting the pain out. I have been counseled and in someways it worked. The world today gives us so much more stress that it is hard for a lot of people to deal. I myself like i said did things to my body and ingested things to ease the pain..I believe to an extent all these things addiction, self-mutilation, obesity and anorexia, bulimia. well you know what i mean all these diseases may start out as a life-style choice but they all end in death and your choice turns in to a disease that runs your life..I encourage you or anyone reading this to get help if you have any of these issues. I have been there and there is no light at the end of the tunnel..Don't let your life-style choice destroy your life...