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For a large percentage of the world's population, smokeless tobacco is a substance they have tried, if not something indulged in regularly. Most people associate smokeless tobacco with sports stars, and incorrectly believe that it is a safe alternative to smoking. Unfortunately for them, this proves to be wrong, as smokeless tobacco has many harmful effects.

A diverse range of people use this highly addictive substance and no one is safe, regardless of race, income, 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 an extremely harmful addiction.

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. Adolescent use of smokeless tobacco is constantly on the 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 share a home with an adult user, their risk of following the trend rises dramatically. In the U.S. among high school students grades 9-12, an average of 9.3% use smokeless tobacco. Among the population of white male students, the average is about 1 user out of 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 possibly fitting in with one's peers. 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. It can also cause appetite suppression, which some users may abuse in an attempt to lose weight.

On the down side are 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 obtain this high. Most tobacco users using one can per day, over thirty years at current prices will spend up to fifty thousand dollars 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 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 kicking the smoking habit. One aspect of the addiction is the very large 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 available to help people quit using 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 out of using the same shot that inhibits receptors in the body for smoking. But the way to stop and permanently stay tobacco-free without withdrawal symptoms, stress, and weight gain is through using hypnosis.

Hypnotherapy treatment offers a two-fold attack to the systematic chewing or dipping reflex built up by your previous habits and lifestyle choices. It first attacks the emotional motivation for why you need a dipp, and then it works to end the mental habit itself.

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

Additionally, hypnotherapy 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 require 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 pack your cheek after you pack your stomach.

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