For many 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. Unfortunately for them, 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 race, income, or gender. The reasons for using smokeless tobacco vary widely from appetite control to generalized stress reduction. This epidemic is harmful to the world. Targeting the world's future with the predominant users being only teenagers and in many cases 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 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 live in a house with an adult that uses, their risk of also using smokeless tobacco rises dramatically. In the United States, among high school students grades 9-12, an average of 9.3% 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 advantages and disadvantages of using it? For some people, the appeal is in "looking cool," and fitting in. It also causes an unusual sensation in users by first relaxing 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 serious consequences 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 obtain tobacco products. Most tobacco users with a can a day habit, over 30 years 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 brings, and this can potentially cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical treatment and ultimately funeral costs.
Quitting smokeless tobacco is widely believed to be much more difficult than quitting smoking. Part of the addiction includes a huge amount of nicotine absorbed by the body when chewing or dipping. This amount is double that received from smoking a cigarette.
But how can one
quit smokeless tobacco? Various products are on the market to help users quit snuff and chew, such as a product that uses spearmint leaves 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 way to stop and permanently remain tobacco-free without withdrawal, stress, and weight gain is through hypnotherapy.
Hypnosis offers a two-fold attack to the habitual chewing or dipping reflex built up by your previous habits and lifestyle choices. It first attacks the psychological motivation for 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 in your body and released by your brain during times of happiness. 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 gives a sense relaxation and pleasure. The very essence of hypnosis is relaxation, and hypnotherapy is excellent for stress relief and relaxation.
Additionally, hypnosis works to break the cycle of expectation that your mind creates. When you
habitually chew tobacco after dinner, your mind starts to signal to your body that you need a chew each and every time you finish eating dinner. By blocking or removing this unconscious thought process, you won't feel the compulsion to habitually use smokeless tobacco.
By extinguishing these two root causes of chewing tobacco use, hypnosis can eliminate the compulsion to dipp or chew, ending your need for the extra dopamine release. Thus hypnosis works in releasing you from this deadly habit and allows a stress free method of stopping.
