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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 falsely believe that it is a safe alternative to smoking cigarettes. Unfortunately for smokeless tobacco users, this proves to be wrong, as smokeless tobacco has a range of harmful effects. Many different types of people use this highly addictive substance and no one is safe, regardless of social status, race, or sex. The reasons for using smokeless tobacco vary widely from appetite control to generalized stress relief. And this epidemic is hurting the world. Targeting the world's future with the predominant users being only teens and sometimes preteens, it is a debilitating substance. The truth of the matter is that teens and smokeless tobacco are getting to be too 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 only 9 or 10. Rural Caucasian teens have the highest risk of using smokeless tobacco, and if the teens share a home with an adult that uses, their risk of following the trend rises dramatically. An average of 9.3% of all students in the United States in grades nine through twelve use smokeless tobacco. In 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 pros and cons of using it? On the plus side of course is "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. Also the appetite is suppressed. On the down side are serious 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 tobacco products. Most tobacco users using one can per day, over thirty years at current prices will spend up to fifty thousand dollars on chewing tobacco in their lifetime, assuming they survive their addiction long enough. There are no known cures for either the gastrointestinal or the oral cancers smokeless tobacco brings, and this also can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical treatment and ultimately funeral costs. Quitting smokeless tobacco is widely believed to be much harder than quitting smoking. Part of the addiction includes a great amount of nicotine absorbed by the body when chewing or dipping. This amount is twice as high as that received from smoking a cigarette. But how can one quit smokeless tobacco? Various products are available to help users quit snuff and chew, such as a product that uses the spearmint plant 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 best way to stop and permanently remain tobacco-free without withdrawal, stress, and weight gain is through hypnosis. Hypnotherapy treatment offers a two-fold attack to the ritualistic chewing or dipping reflex built up by your previous habits and lifestyle choices. It first works to eliminate the emotional reasons why you need a dipp, and then it works to eliminate 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 self-hypnosis is superb for promoting stress relief and relaxation. Hypnotherapy also works to break the cycle of expectation created by your mind. When you chew tobacco after dinner, your mind starts to signal to your body that you need a chew each and every time you are done eating dinner. By blocking or eliminating this unconscious thought process, you won't feel the compulsion to habitually use smokeless tobacco. By attacking these two root causes of chewing tobacco use, hypnotherapy can extinguish the compulsion to dipp or chew, stopping your need for the extra dopamine release. Thus releasing you from this lethal addiction and providing a stress free method of quitting.
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Alan B. Densky, CH offers NLP CDs to overcome dipping. His site offers hypnosis CDs for 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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