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Smokeless Tobacco - How You Can Break The Addiction (Track This Article)

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 them, this proves to be wrong, as smokeless tobacco has many dangerous effects.

A diverse range of people use this highly addictive substance and no one is safe, dependent on income, race, or sex. The reasons for going smokeless vary widely from appetite control to generalized stress relief. This epidemic is hurting the world. Targeting the world's future with the primary users being only teens and in many cases preteens, it is a debilitating substance.

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. Child use of smokeless tobacco is on the constant rise, with some users starting when they are only 9 or 10.

Rural Caucasian teens have the highest risk of using smokeless tobacco, and if the teens 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. In white male students, the average is approximately 1 user in 5 students.

But what are the effects of smokeless tobacco and what are the advantages and disadvantages 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, through the release of dopamine in the brain, and then exciting them with a release of adrenaline. Also the appetite is reduced.

On the down side are consequences that make the reasons to chew look pretty weak. Use of smokeless tobacco causes a number of cancers, along with tooth and gum problems, bad breath, and of course the financial spending of the user to supply smokeless tobacco products. 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 gastrointestinal or the oral cancers smokeless tobacco causes, and this can also cost a fortune in treatment and ultimately funeral expenses.

Quitting smokeless tobacco is widely thought to be much harder than quitting smoking. Part of the addiction includes a very large amount of nicotine absorbed by the body while chewing or dipping. This amount is double that received from smoking a cigarette.

But how can one quit using smokeless tobacco products? Various products are on the market to help people quit using snuff and chew, such as a product that uses spearmint leaves as a substitute for 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 a hypnosis program.

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

First consider the emotional reasons for using tobacco products. 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 provides pleasure and relaxation. The very essence of hypnosis is relaxation, and hypnotherapy is superb for stress relief and relaxation.

Hypnosis also works to break the cycle of expectation that your mind creates. When you chew tobacco after dinner, your mind begins to tell your body that you require a chew every time you finish eating dinner. By blocking or eliminating this unconscious thought process, you won't feel the need to pack your cheek after you pack your stomach.

By extinguishing these two root causes of chewing tobacco use, hypnosis programs can eliminate the urge to dipp or chew, stopping your need for the extra dopamine release. Thus hypnotherapy works in freeing you from this surely deadly addiction and offers a stress free method of stopping.

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