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Titled: Dipping Tobacco – How To Quit The Addiction
Dipping Tobacco – How To Quit The Addiction
Article Summary: Approximately 9.3% of all high school students in the United States use smokeless tobacco. Quitting smokeless tobacco is widely believed to be much more challenging than kicking the smoking habit. By far the largest aspect of the addiction to smokeless is the psychological addiction. However, new techniques in hypnosis for quitting smokeless tobacco are enabling the addicted to quit the habit with
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 incorrectly believe that it is a safe alternative to smoking. Unfortunately for smokeless tobacco users, this can all too often prove dead wrong.
Many different types 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. And this epidemic is hurting the world. Targeting the world's future with the primary users being just teenagers and sometimes preteens, it is a highly dangerous habit.
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. Adolescent use of smokeless tobacco is on the constant rise, with some users starting when they are just nine or ten.
Rural Caucasian teenagers have the highest risk of using smokeless tobacco, and if the teenagers live in a household with an adult user, their chances of following the trend rises dramatically. Approximately 9.3% of all high school students in the United States use smokeless tobacco. Among the population of 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 fitting in. It also causes an odd 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 more ramifications that make the reasons to chew look completely insubstantial. Use of smokeless tobacco causes a wide variety of diseases, along with tooth and gum problems, bad breath, and of course the financial spending of the user to supply tobacco products. Most tobacco users with a can a day habit, 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 causes, and this may potentially cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical treatment and ultimately funeral expenses.
Quitting smokeless tobacco is widely believed to be much more challenging than kicking the smoking habit. Part of the addiction includes a huge 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 quit smokeless tobacco? Various products are available to help people quit using snuff and chew, such as a product that uses spearmint as a substitute for the tobacco without supplying the nicotine. And some success has come out of receiving the same shot that inhibits receptors for smoking. But the way to quit forever without withdrawal symptoms, stress, and weight gain is through hypnotherapy.
A hypnosis program offers a two-fold attack to the habitual dipping or chewing reflex built up by your previous habits and lifestyle choices. It first attacks the psychological reasons why you need a dipp, and then it works to eliminate 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, 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 gives relaxation and pleasure. The very essence of hypnosis is relaxation, and hypnosis is superb for promoting stress relief and relaxation.
Additionally, hypnotherapy works to break the cycle of expectation that your mind creates. When you put in a chew after dinner, your mind starts to tell your body that you require a chew each and every time you finish eating dinner. By blocking or eliminating this unconscious thought process, you won't feel the compulsion to pack your cheek after you pack your stomach.
By extinguishing these two root causes of chewing tobacco use, hypnotherapy programs can extinguish the urge to chew or dipp, ending your physical need for the extra dopamine release. Thus freeing you from this surely deadly addiction and providing a stress free method of quitting.
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About the Author:
Alan B. Densky, CH
Alan B. Densky, CH offers NLP CDs to quit smokeless. 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 NLP and hypnosis newsletters & MP3s.
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