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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Are there any philosophers that studied the mind in that state where two or more conflicting intentions are being held and what makes one `win` over the other, so to say

Take smoking for example. A person knows that smoking is bad for their health and for their sense of taste and smell. Knows that it actually makes them more anxious, not less. That it is costing them a lot of money to indulge in that behavior. What's the most important is that they have made the conscious intention of quitting and yet they are unable to.
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Frankfurt's theory of first and second order desires might interest you. He specifically uses the example of addiction and how it relates to freedom of choice. The addict is not 'free' when they act in a compulsive way because their first and second order desires are not aligned.