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By Alan Densky

 For many people around the world, smokeless tobacco is at least something they have tried, if not something indulged in 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 social status, race, or gender. The reasons for using smokeless tobacco vary widely from appetite control to generalized stress reduction. And this epidemic is hurting 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 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 only nine or ten years old.

Rural Caucasian teens have the highest risk of using smokeless tobacco products, and if the teens 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 products. Among the white male student body, 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? 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 consequences that make the reasons to chew look completely insubstantial. Use of smokeless tobacco causes a number of diseases, along with dental problems, bad breath, and of course the financial spending of the user to obtain smokeless tobacco. Most tobacco users with a can a day habit, over three decades at current prices will spend up to $50,000 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 may cost a fortune in medical treatment and sadly, perhaps funeral expenses.

Quitting smokeless tobacco is widely thought to be much harder than kicking the smoking habit. A part of the addiction is the tremendous amount of nicotine absorbed by the body when dipping or chewing. This amount is two times as much as that received from smoking a cigarette.

But how can one beat their smokeless tobacco addiction? 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 supplying the nicotine. And some success has come from receiving same shot that inhibits receptors in the body for smoking. But the best way to quit forever without withdrawal symptoms, stress, and weight gain is through hypnotherapy.

Hypnosis offers a two-fold attack to the ritualistic dipping or chewing reflex built up by your prior habits and lifestyle choices. It first works to eliminate the psychological motivation for why you desire a dipp, and then it attacks the mental habit itself.

First you’ll want to consider the emotional reasons. 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 pleasure and relaxation. The very essence of hypnosis is relaxation, and hypnotherapy is excellent for promoting stress relief and relaxation.

Hypnotherapy also works to break the cycle of expectation that your mind creates. 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 eliminating this thought process, you won’t feel the need to habitually use smokeless tobacco.

By extinguishing these two root causes of chewing tobacco use, hypnotherapy programs can eliminate the urge to chew or dipp, stopping your physical need for the extra dopamine release. Thus hypnotherapy works in freeing you from this harmful addiction and allows a stress free method of stopping.

Alan B. Densky, CH offers NLP & Hypnosis CDs to overcome smokeless tobacco. His site offers hypnotherapy CDs for appetite, weight loss, smoke cessation, and stress related symptoms. He provides a library of hypnosis & NLP articles, and offers FREE hypnosis and NLP newsletters & MP3s.

Using Hypnosis To Quit Smoking
By John Hubert

 Smoking is an addiction that many people aren’t able to break. It plagues all countries around the world, from America to Europe to all the other regions, and no matter how hard some people try, they just can’t kick the habbit.

What many people don’t realise however, is that they can use hypnosis to quit smoking, and it’s a lot easier than some people may think. Just what do you know of hypnosis exactly? Is it based on fact or preconceptions, word of mouth or beliefs that are unsubstantiated? If you answered that you didn’t know, then allow me to explain just what hypnosis is.

Hypnosis you see is a form of treatment and psychological deepening technique that has been around for many hundreds of years. It’s only been recently that hypnosis has started to gain such a wide acceptance by the public, and also an understanding from the scientific community. So how can one actually use hypnosis to quit smoking however, you might ask? The answer is, through the same techniques as you’d use hypnosis in any other way.

Hypnosis works by placing our mind into a deeply relaxed and tranquil state, known as a trance. When it’s in this state then we can give our subconscious certain suggestions, which it will subsequently act upon. If you just can’t quit smoking, you can give yourself a suggestion such as ‘I will have no desire to ever pick up another cigarette again’. Whilst you’re in hypnosis, this suggestion will seep into your subconscious. When you awaken yourself from trance, don’t be surprised if you do in fact end up quit smoking, as that is precisely what the hypnosis session was supposed to make you do.

Lots of people will automatically dismiss hypnosis as not working, even though they haven’t tried it. The thought of running around the room doing odd things that some mad stage hypnotist suggests isn’t what hypnotherapy is really about. Hypnosis can be therapeutic just as it can be entertaining, perhaps even more so. For this reason it’s important to try and understand that hypnosis can help you quit smoking, if you put your mind to it. Now no one is saying it will happen immediately, it may take a couple of missions, but using hypnosis to quit smoking has a very high success rate.

If you’re tried every other method under the sun to kick your addiction, from nicotine patches and gum right through to trying to quit ‘cold turkey’, and none of these methods have work, then in all honesty and seriousness, why not give hypnosis a go? It can’t hard, and the worst that will happen is that you’ll experience a relaxing state of warmth without any affects. So at the very least, you’ll become relaxed whilst in the state and enjoy it, even if it doesn’t help you. But odds are however that it will do something for you and your smoking addiction.

So don’t be one of those people that says ‘you can’t use hypnosis to quit smoking’, be one of those people that actually gives it a go and sees for themselves just how well hypnosis can work. What we don’t try we will only end up regretting, so why not give hypnosis a go today? You never know what may happen.

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John Hubert is a a surveyor and studies various technique of learning hypnotism. He recommends his page on ways of using Hypnosis To Quit Smoking. He runs a website that teaches you how to - Learn Hypnosis.

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Cigarette Side Effects A Cause For Worry? Kill The Urges with Quit Smoking
By Alan Densky

 How many inner conversations have you had with yourself about your smoking habit? How many times have you mentioned to family and friends that you want to stop but seem to continue to smoke away despite the risks and the wasted money? And how many programs have you tried that just failed? If you are like most people struggling with smoking, you will remember such inner dramas and may have felt nothing will really succeed for you. Unless you tried hypnosis to stop smoking, you may have been on target.

If you fervently want to stop smoking, neurolinguistic therapy with hypnosis is the rational choice for reliable success. Smoking cessation hypnotherapy can zone in on the main reasons that keep you smoking as well as equipping you with resources and guidance to be successful for good. This is not stage entertainment that is good for laughs and tricks, but a real medical therapy approved by the AMA since 1958, and one with established credentials and strict rules of conduct.

Treatment with hypnosis does not change your moral values and a responsible practitioner will honor your privacy and protect your rights just the same as any other medical professional. You do want one who is approved by the National Guild of Hypnotists and who supports their stringent code of ethics and professional conduct. Included in their code is putting the mental and physical welfare of clients uppermost. They also defend clients from verbal, mental or physical, and make outside referrals as needed.

A well trained practitioner has the skills to address problem behavior, and hypnotherapy to quit smoking is the second most regular type they practice. Using the most current methods which may include the precision of NLP enriched hypnosis and the ongoing extra support of CDs for stop smoking hypnosis as well as any prescription measures a PCP might also suggest for a patient. Using hypnotherapy does not mean other measures are excluded, but they may not be needed at all.

The reason that professionally used stop smoking hypnosis is the most effective method to ensure success is that it addresses the three basic concerns in smoking. No method can truly work that does not address each issue totally and correct the problems each causes. Most people feel that the physical addiction to nicotine is the most important factor and the most predominant problem, but this is simply not true. If the addiction to the compound called nicotine were the sole reason for failure, most smokers would not fail so many times in their efforts to end smoking for good.

Yes, nicotine is a powerfully addictive substance and for most smokers the physical dependence is very real and there are withdrawal physical responses that are also real. But did you understand these last only a very few days? In fact, every bit of nicotine is flushed out of the system in just 72 hours or less! For many smokers, it is the fear of withdrawal physical symptoms and not the reality that causes the most dread and which may prevent even attempting to quit. Yet quitting without specific training has an average 5% success rate! Stop smoking hypnosis reduces fear of withdrawal distresses and mitigates the effect of any that do occur.

Another attribute of smoking cigarettes is that it provides calming and comfort, just as using a pacifier tranquilizes an infant. Many people treat stress and anxiety with some form of oral soothing like smoking cigarettes or eating. Hypnotic relaxation can substitute for the comfort factor derived from smoking cigarettes, which reduces the insistent urges and produces the benefits of quitting instead. The mind can be trained to substitute the same perceptions from other activities that are beneficial, not harmful. Neurolinguistic techniques can teach the brain to remove any connection between smoking cigarettes and comfort.

Finally, part of the smoking addiction is plain old Pavlovian habit formation to stimuli. Smokers learn to link smoking with certain activities, from the movie cliche of smoking immediately after physical relations to having a cigarette while consuming alcohol or viewing TV or chatting on the phone. Here hypnosis to stop smoking can permanently delete the association, and when the link is no longer there, there will be no cue to have a smoke when the coffee is poured or the cocktail is presented. The mind is trained to associate good things with the former triggers, or to recall the helpful effects of quitting or the bad things about the smoke.

A highly qualified hypnotist will use both positive and negative associations to replace conditioned associations with smoking, selecting those most meaningful for an individual client. Quit smoking hypnosis is the only treatment modality that can fine tune the treatment to each of the three factors in smoking and eliminate them. Virtually everyone quitting requires support, but only stop smoking hypnosis programs effectively make you your own instant and always available support system.

Alan B. Densky, CH pioneered the use of Neuro-VISION video stop smoking self hypnosis and received a U.S. Patent for his hard work. He offers a range of quit smoking hypnosis CDs which give valuable assistance. Visit him for Free quit smoking self-hypnosis videos and downloads.

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