Smokeless Tobacco - How To Break The Habit

For numerous people around the world, smokeless tobacco is 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 them, this proves to be wrong, as smokeless tobacco has many ill effects.

A diverse range of people use this highly addictive substance and no one is safe, dependent on 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 primary users being only teenagers and in many cases preteens, it is an extremely harmful addiction.

The truth of the matter is that teens and smokeless tobacco are getting to be excessively close to each other and creating lifelong habits and health risks that are just too great to be overlooked and too dangerous to be ignored. Child use of smokeless tobacco is on the constant rise, with some users starting when they are only nine or ten 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 that uses, their risk of also using smokeless tobacco rises dramatically. Approximately 9.3% of all U.S. students in grades 9-12 use smokeless tobacco products. 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 advantages and disadvantages of using it? For some people, the appeal is in "looking cool," and possibly fitting in with one's peers. It also causes an unusual sensation in users by first calming them, through the release of dopamine in the brain, and then exciting them with a release of adrenaline. Also the appetite is suppressed.

On the down side are consequences that make the reasons to chew look pretty weak. 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 supply this high. Most tobacco users with a can a day habit, over thirty years 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 can potentially cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical treatment and ultimately funeral costs.

Quitting smokeless tobacco is widely believed to be much more difficult than quitting smoking. One aspect of the addiction is the great 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 on the market to help people quit using snuff and chew, such as a product that uses spearmint as a substitute for the tobacco without getting the nicotine. And some success has come from receiving same shot that inhibits receptors in the body for smoking. But the way to quit forever without withdrawal, stress, and weight gain is through a hypnosis program.

Hypnosis treatment offers a two-fold attack to the habitual dipping or chewing reflex built up by your prior habits and lifestyle choices. It first attacks the emotional motivation for why you want a dipp, and then it attacks the mental habit itself.

First you'll want to consider the emotional reasons for using tobacco products. Dopamine is a "feel good" chemical produced in your body and released by your brain to create a feeling of pleasure. In times of stress, dopamine can produce a general feeling 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 pleasure and relaxation. The very essence of hypnosis is relaxation, and hypnotherapy is superb for promoting stress relaxation and stress relief.

Additionally, hypnotherapy works to break the cycle of expectation that your mind creates. When you put in a chew after dinner, your mind begins to tell your body that you require a chew after every dinner. By inhibiting or eliminating this thought process, you will not feel compelled to habitually use smokeless tobacco.

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

About The Author:
Alan B. Densky, CH offers NLP CDs to overcome chew. His site offers hypnotherapy CDs for appetite, weight loss, smoke cessation, and stress related symptoms. He maintains a library of NLP & hypnosis articles, and offers FREE hypnosis and NLP newsletters & MP3s.