Use Hypnotherapy To Break The Smokeless Tobacco Addiction

For a large percentage of the world's population, smokeless tobacco is a substance 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 them, this proves to be wrong, as smokeless tobacco has a range of ill effects.

All different types 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 reduction. And this epidemic is hurting the world. Targeting the world's future with the predominant users being just teens and sometimes preteens, it is very dangerous stuff.

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 constantly on the rise, with some users starting when they are just nine or ten.

Rural Caucasian teens have the highest risk of using smokeless tobacco, and if the teens share a home with an adult user, their chances of also using smokeless tobacco rises dramatically. In the U.S. among high school students grades 9-12, an average of 9.3% use smokeless tobacco. In white male students, the average is about 1 user in 5 students.

But what are the effects of smokeless tobacco and what are the pros and cons of using it? For some people, the appeal is in "looking cool," and fitting in. Also it 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 reduced.

On the down side are serious ramifications that make the reasons to chew look pretty weak. Use of smokeless tobacco causes a wide variety of cancers, along with dental problems, bad breath, and of course the financial spending of the user to obtain this high. Most tobacco users with a can a day habit, over thirty years at current prices will spend up to fifty thousand dollars on chewing tobacco in their lifetime, assuming they live long enough.

There are no known cures for either the gastrointestinal or the oral cancers smokeless tobacco brings, and this also can cost a fortune in medical treatment and sadly, perhaps funeral expenses.

Quitting smokeless tobacco is widely believed to be much more difficult than quitting smoking. A part of the addiction is the great amount of nicotine absorbed by the body while 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 on the market to help people quit using snuff and chew, such as a product that uses the spearmint plant to mimic the tobacco without getting the nicotine. And some success has been shown with the same shot that inhibits receptors for smoking. But the best way to stop and permanently stay tobacco-free without withdrawal, stress, and weight gain is through using a hypnotherapy program.

Hypnotherapy 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 emotional motivation for why you crave a dipp, and then it works to eliminate the mental habit itself.

First you'll want to consider the emotional motivation 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, the dopamine produces 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 relaxation and pleasure. The very essence of hypnosis is relaxation, and self-hypnosis is excellent for promoting stress relaxation and stress relief.

Additionally, hypnotherapy works to break the cycle of expectation created by your mind. When you put in a chew after dinner, your mind begins to signal to your body that you require a chew each and every time you finish eating dinner. By inhibiting or eliminating this thought process, you won't feel the urge to pack your cheek after you pack your stomach.

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

Alan B. Densky, CH offers Hypnosis CDs to overcome chew. His site offers hypnosis CDs for weight loss, smoke cessation, and stress related symptoms. He provides a library of hypnosis & NLP articles, and offers FREE hypnosis & NLP newsletters and MP3's..

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