It can also cause leathery white patches in the mouth that can turn into cancer. Tooth decay and mouth sores. The sugar in smokeless tobacco can cause tooth decay and painful mouth sores. Poor gum health. How to Quit Quitting smokeless tobacco is a lot like quitting smoking, but there are some differences.
Quit Notes. Avoid external triggers. Go places and do things where smoking and tobacco aren't allowed.
The SmokefreeVET texting program can be a source of support for you during your quit. Sign Up. More for you. How to Quit Dipping or Chewing Tobacco. In , an estimated 8, deaths can be blamed on oral cancer. Principal methods are surgery and radiation therapy.
Chemotherapy is sometimes used before surgery or radiation therapy to shrink large tumors. Early detection is important! Ask your dentist or family physician how to perform oral self-exams and do them regularly. Use of Health Topics. Three types of smokeless tobacco Chewing tobacco Consists of coarsely divided tobacco leaf that is mixed with sugar and molasses and packaged in a pouch.
Snuff Is a moist, more finely cut tobacco. Dry snuff Is finely ground and snuffed through the nostrils. This is rarely used in the United States. What is in smokeless tobacco? It can be hard to break these patterns of behavior. However, smokeless tobacco users have quit successfully, and so can you. Your family doctor can help you quit. The tips below can help, too. To help you commit, write down your reasons for wanting to quit. For example, quitting prevents possible health effects.
It saves you money. It helps you set a good example for family and friends. Keep your personal list where you can see it each day. It will serve to motivate you along the way. Once you decide to quit, set a date and stick to it. Choose a date 2 to 4 weeks from today. Quitting can be hard, so map out a plan that works for you. To start, identify the times and places you normally use smokeless tobacco. Then, plan to avoid these situations or have tobacco substitutes with you.
Get rid of all your smokeless tobacco products before your quit date. It may help to cut back on the amount of chew or dip you use before that. Your family, friends, and doctor can provide support. If possible, find a friend or family member to quit with. Studies have shown that people who quit with a partner are more successful. You also can ask your doctor to recommend a support group that can help you quit. Talk to your doctor about whether nicotine gum or another nicotine replacement product is right for you.
In general, people who benefit most from nicotine replacement include:. In some cases, your doctor may recommend nicotine replacement theory. This can help you gradually cut back to quit.
As for the feeling: It's fantastic, until it isn't. For the first five minutes, I feel like someone is pumping helium into my cranium. One of the best head rushes I've ever had. I can't stop smiling, like a demented flight attendant. Then, with alarming speed, comes the nausea. I don't throw up—a common dipping-tobacco rite of passage—but I feel profoundly uneasy, like I'm in a two-seater airplane bouncing through a snowstorm above Buffalo.
I sweat. Light hurts my eyes. I space out, staring at my iPhone and trying to remember why I took it out. I burp repeatedly. I obviously need some guidance. I search the Internet for "How to Chew Tobacco. The Web is loaded with images of receding gums, caramel-colored teeth, missing jaws, and white patches called gator lip, along with testimonials on how smokeless tobacco is absolutely, positively not a safe alternative to smoking. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reminds us that it might contain delicious arsenic, lead, and mercury.
But the public has a right to know. So I forge ahead. I stumble onto a YouTube channel founded by a man who calls himself the Dip Doctor. The Doctor is perhaps not the best person to dispel chewing-tobacco stereotypes.
He wears a camouflage cap adorned with a Confederate flag. He owns a company called Mud Jug that sells portable spittoons with names like Backwoods Badass Outlaw.
But still, he's passionate and knowledgeable, so I call the Dip Doctor real name: Darcy Compton to get some dos and don'ts. He's got plenty. I tell the Dip Doctor about my wife's less-than-enthusiastic reaction to my experiment. His response is immediate: "Don't ever quit dippin' for a woman. It's been four days and I'm getting bolder.
I've been dipping wherever I go: the subway, the street, Starbucks, picking up my kids from school. I work at one of those shared offices where a bunch of twenty-two-year-olds are beta-testing new social-media platforms while downing bok choy smoothies and discussing yoga studios. I sit in the corner and quietly spit my chunky tobacco juice into a thermos. I feel rebellious and dirty and unhealthy. Also focused. This stuff is like Adderall. For about half an hour after I put in a dinger, I'm on fire.
This morning, I banged out fifty emails. I'm stuffing in bigger hogs. You can spot the swelling in my cheek, perhaps conveniently foreshadowing the tumor I'll eventually develop. The lumps of tobacco affect my speech. They make me sound—appropriately enough—like I have a Kentucky drawl. The phrase "Nice to see you" comes out "Nahs to shee ya. Today I get cocky. I take a massive wad of some hardcore stuff and soon feel a wave of nausea. I run to the bathroom at work and stand in front of the urinal spitting, moaning, and dry-heaving.
I hear someone open the bathroom door, then shut it without entering. Good call.
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