How You Can Break The Dipping Addiction

A feature article by Alan B Densky, Mar 12, 2008         

Summary: Approximately 9.3% of all U.S. students in grades 9-12 use smokeless tobacco. Quitting smokeless tobacco is widely believed to be much harder 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 allowing addicts to quit the habit without having to suffer from withdrawal symptoms or weight gain.

 
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 falsely believe that it is a safe alternative to smoking cigarettes. Unfortunately for them, this can all too often prove dead wrong.

A diverse range of people use this highly addictive substance and no one is safe, dependent on race, income, 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 teens and sometimes 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 constantly on the 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. Approximately 9.3% of all U.S. students in grades 9-12 use smokeless tobacco. Among the population of white male students, the average is approximately 1 user out of 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 possibly fitting in with one's peers. It also causes an unusual sensation in users by first calming them, by the release of dopamine in the brain, and then exciting them with a release of adrenaline. It can also cause appetite suppression, which some users may abuse in an attempt to lose weight.

On the down side are more consequences that make the reasons to chew look pretty weak. 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 obtain smokeless 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 gastrointestinal or the oral cancers smokeless tobacco brings, and this can potentially cost a fortune in treatment and ultimately funeral costs.

Quitting smokeless tobacco is widely believed to be much harder than kicking the smoking habit. Part of the addiction includes a huge amount of nicotine absorbed by the body while chewing or dipping. This amount is twice as high as that received from smoking a cigarette.

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But how can one quit using smokeless tobacco products? Various products are on the market to help wean users off of snuff and chew, such as a product that uses mint leaves to mimic 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 and permanently remain tobacco-free without withdrawal, stress, and weight gain is through using a hypnosis program.

A hypnosis program offers a two-fold attack to the systematic chewing or dipping reflex built up by your previous 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 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 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 relaxation and pleasure. The very essence of hypnosis is relaxation, and hypnotherapy is superb 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 tell your body that you need a chew after every dinner. By inhibiting or removing this unconscious thought process, you won't feel compelled to habitually use smokeless tobacco.

By extinguishing these two root causes of chewing tobacco use, hypnosis programs can virtually eliminate the compulsion to dipp or chew, ending your need for the extra dopamine release. Thus freeing you from this harmful habit and providing a stress free method of quitting.



Alan B. Densky, CH offers NLP & Hypnosis CDs to quit smokeless tobacco. His site offers CDs for stress related symptoms including weight loss hypnosis, and stop smoking hypnosis. He maintains a library of NLP & hypnosis articles, and offers FREE hypnosis & NLP newsletters & MP3s.

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