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How You Can Stop The Smokeless Habit

For a large percentage of the world's population, smokeless tobacco is at least 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 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, dependent on social status, race, or sex. The reasons for using smokeless tobacco vary widely from appetite control to generalized stress relief. 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 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, and if the teenagers share a home with an adult that uses, their chances of following the trend rises dramatically. In the U.S. among high school students grades 9-12, an average of 9.3% use smokeless tobacco. Among 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? For some people, the appeal is in "looking cool," and possibly fitting in with one's peers. 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. Also the appetite is suppressed.

On the down side are serious 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 products. 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 gastrointestinal or the oral cancers smokeless tobacco causes, and this can also cost a fortune in medical treatment and ultimately funeral expenses.

Quitting smokeless tobacco is widely thought to be much harder than quitting smoking. Part of the addiction includes a huge 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 available to help people quit using snuff and chew, such as a product that uses the spearmint plant as a substitute for the tobacco without supplying the nicotine. And some success has come from receiving same shot that inhibits receptors for smoking. But the best way to quit and permanently stay tobacco-free without withdrawal, stress, and weight gain is through using a hypnotherapy program.

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

First consider the emotional reasons. Dopamine is a "feel good" chemical produced in your body and released by your brain during pleasurable activities. 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 provides relaxation and pleasure. The very essence of hypnosis is relaxation, and hypnosis is superb for stress relief and relaxation.

Additionally, hypnotherapy works to break the cycle of expectation that your mind creates. When you habitually chew tobacco after dinner, your mind starts to tell your body that you require a chew after every dinner. By blocking or removing this thought process, you will not feel the compulsion to pack your cheek after you pack your stomach.

By eliminating these two root causes of chewing tobacco use, hypnotherapy treatments can extinguish the compulsion to chew or dipp, stopping your need for the extra dopamine release. Thus hypnotherapy works in freeing you from this harmful addiction and offers a stress free method of quitting.