Dipping Tobacco - How You Can Break The Addiction

For numerous people around the world, smokeless tobacco is at least something they have tried, if not something used regularly. Most people associate smokeless tobacco with sports stars, and incorrectly believe that it is a safe alternative to smoking cigarettes. Unfortunately for smokeless tobacco users, this can all too often prove dead wrong.

All different types of people use this highly addictive substance and no one is safe, regardless of race, income, or sex. The reasons for going smokeless vary widely from appetite control to generalized stress reduction. This epidemic is harmful to the world. Targeting the world's future with the predominant users being only teenagers and sometimes preteens, it is a highly dangerous habit.

The truth of the matter is that teen use of smokeless tobacco is a prominent problem enough that it is creating many lifelong users who suffer health problems and health risks that are just too great to be overlooked and too dangerous to be ignored. Adolescent use of smokeless tobacco is on the constant rise, with some users starting when they are only nine or ten.

Rural Caucasian teenagers have the highest risk of using smokeless tobacco products, and if the teenagers live in a household with an adult that uses, their risk of also using smokeless tobacco rises dramatically. Approximately 9.3% of all U.S. students in grades nine through twelve use smokeless tobacco products. Among the population of white male students, the average is about 1 user in 5 students.

But what are the effects of smokeless tobacco and what are the pros and cons of using it? For some people, the appeal is in "looking cool," and fitting in. It also causes an odd sensation in users by first calming 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 in an attempt to lose weight.

On the down side are consequences that make the reasons to chew look pretty weak. Use of smokeless tobacco causes a wide variety of cancers, along with tooth and gum problems, bad breath, and of course the financial spending of the user to supply this product. Most tobacco users using one can per day, over three decades at current prices will spend up to $50,000 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 may cost a fortune in treatment and ultimately funeral costs.

Quitting smokeless tobacco is widely believed to be much more challenging than quitting smoking. Part of the addiction includes a very large amount of nicotine absorbed by the body while dipping or chewing. 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 wean users off of snuff and chew, such as a product that uses spearmint to mimic the tobacco without getting the nicotine. And some success has been shown with the same shot that inhibits receptors in the body for smoking. But the best way to quit and permanently stay tobacco-free without withdrawal symptoms, stress, and weight gain is through using a hypnosis program.

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

First consider the emotional reasons. Dopamine is a "feel good" chemical produced by your body and released by your brain to create a feeling of pleasure. In times of stress, the dopamine produces 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 gives a sense relaxation and pleasure. The very essence of hypnosis is relaxation, and self-hypnosis is excellent for promoting stress relief and relaxation.

Hypnosis also works to break the cycle of expectation created by your mind. When you put in a chew after dinner, your mind begins to tell your body that you need a chew each and every time you are done eating dinner. By blocking or removing this unconscious thought process, you won't feel the need to habitually use smokeless tobacco.

By eliminating these two root causes of chewing tobacco use, hypnotherapy can eliminate the compulsion to chew or dipp, stopping your physical need for the extra release of dopamine. Thus hypnotherapy works in freeing you from this surely deadly habit and allows a stress free method of quitting.

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