How You Can Break The Smokeless Habit

For a large percentage of the world's population, smokeless tobacco is something they have tried, if not something used regularly. Most people associate smokeless tobacco with sports stars, and falsely believe that it is a safe alternative to smoking. Unfortunately for them, this can all too often prove dead wrong.

A diverse range of people use this highly addictive substance and no one is safe, regardless of social status, race, or gender. The reasons for going smokeless vary widely from appetite control to generalized stress relief. This epidemic is harmful to the world. Targeting the world's future with the predominant users being only teenagers and in many cases preteens, it is a highly dangerous habit.

The truth of the matter is that teens and smokeless tobacco are getting to be excessively familiar with each other and creating lifelong habits and health risks that are just too great to be overlooked and too dangerous to be ignored. Adolescent use of smokeless tobacco is constantly on the rise, with some users starting when they are only 9 or 10 years old.

Rural Caucasian teenagers have the highest risk of using smokeless tobacco products, and if the teenagers live in a household with an adult user, their risk of following the trend rises dramatically. In the United States, among high school students grades 9-12, an average of 9.3% use smokeless tobacco. Among the population of white male students, the average is approximately 1 user in every 5 students.

But what are the effects of smokeless tobacco and what are the pros and cons of using it? On the plus side of course is "looking cool," and fitting in. Also it causes an odd sensation in users by first relaxing them, by the release of dopamine in the brain, and then exciting them with a release of adrenaline. It can also cause appetite suppression, which some users may abuse to try to lose weight.

On the down side are more consequences that make the reasons to chew look completely insubstantial. Use of smokeless tobacco causes a number of diseases, along with dental problems, bad breath, and of course the financial spending of the user to obtain smokeless tobacco. Most tobacco users using one can per day, over three decades at current prices will spend up to fifty thousand dollars on chewing tobacco, assuming they live that long.

There are no known cures for either the oral or the gastrointestinal cancers smokeless tobacco brings, and this also can cost a fortune in medical treatment and sadly, perhaps funeral costs.

Quitting smokeless tobacco is widely thought to be much harder than quitting smoking. Part of the addiction includes a tremendous amount of nicotine absorbed by the body when chewing or dipping. This amount is two times as much as that received from smoking a cigarette.

But how can one beat their smokeless tobacco addiction? Various products are available to help users quit snuff and chew, such as a product that uses mint leaves as a substitute for the tobacco without getting the nicotine. And some success has come from receiving same shot that inhibits receptors for smoking. But the best way to quit forever without withdrawal symptoms, stress, and weight gain is through using a hypnotherapy program.

A hypnotherapy program offers a two-fold attack to the habitual chewing or dipping reflex built up by your prior habits and lifestyle choices. It first works to eliminate the emotional reasons why you want a dipp, and then it works to eliminate the mental habit itself.

First you'll want to consider the emotional reasons for using tobacco products. Dopamine is a "feel good" chemical produced by your body and released by your brain during pleasurable activities. In times of stress, dopamine can produce a general sensation of well being. Some common occurrences of natural release include eating a large meal, or sexual relief. In other words, putting some chew into the mouth provides relaxation and pleasure. The very essence of hypnosis is relaxation, and hypnotherapy is excellent for stress relief and relaxation.

Additionally, hypnotherapy works to break the cycle of expectation that your mind creates. When you habitually put in a chew after dinner, your mind starts to tell your body that you need a chew every time you are done eating dinner. By inhibiting or eliminating this thought process, you won't feel the compulsion to habitually use smokeless tobacco.

By attacking these two root causes of chewing tobacco use, hypnotherapy programs can extinguish the compulsion to chew or dipp, stopping your need for the extra release of dopamine. Thus releasing you from this dangerous habit and offering a stress free method of quitting.

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Alan B. Densky, CH offersNLP CDs to overcome dipping. His site offers CDs for stress related symptoms including lose weight hypnosis, and stop smoking hypnosis. He maintains a library of NLP & hypnosis articles, and offers FREE hypnosis and NLP newsletters and MP3's. www.neuro-vision.us/Products/Quit-Smokeless-Tobacco-Hypnosis-CDs.htm

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