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Answer You - Smokeless Tobacco: The Monster Within
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When the addicted person has removed their blinders and seen the addiction for the Monster it is and reached out in helplessness to their support group, there is another factor that helps them along in their journey out of the abyss of addiction into the light of logic. That factor is education. Education about their addiction, methods that have been proven effective for the majority of those who have come before them in terms of helping them to quit dip or chew.
This education can take many forms. One of the most accepted forms is a cessation program which follows proven, clinical procedures while surrounding the individual with a friendly, caring and supportive atmosphere of mutual benefit. Yes, mutual benefit, because a program only works when both the teacher and the student benefit and learn from one another. Who is the teacher and
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No one can say when it really begins. One day, you are in control. The next, you are not in control. When did it happen? Did It happen when you took your first chew or dip? The second? The third? Did it begin when you started taking a dip or chew when you felt stressed at work?
I believe that tobacco addiction begins under different conditions for everyone. For some, it occurs when the first dip or chew is introduced into the bloodstream. Others, it occurs when the habit is used the first time to offset a condition, such as, stress.
The one thing that everyone has in common is the fact that after a certain length of time after the repeated introduction of dip or chew into the system, addiction occurs.
Wearing Blinders
Why is it that the addicted individual is usually the very last to admit to the addiction? I feel that it is due to the mental denial (blinders) that occurs when anyone is faced with something that they do NOT wish to admit to themselves.
Most people who are in the very throes of addiction believe that they are in control. The old saying, “We are our strongest when we are our weakest”, applies to the certain knowledge within our own selves that we are addicted. It is reinforced by the certain knowledge that when we open ourselves to others in our weakest moments, their help saves our program through their strength and our very weakness that allows them to reach out to us also allows them to strengthen their program even more!
This is when the healing can truly begin. When we are “on our knees” before our own consciousness and peers, we are then faced with reality. The reality that we are no longer in control of our lives. If we wish to regain that control, reach out to the caring hands that are extended to us...the healing begins.
The blinders of our own self-denial fall away as the pure and certain knowledge of our addiction is admitted. Admission is the key to our accepting help. The help of others, a support group of family, friends, other cessation members, etc., is where it all begins. To know that we are not alone and that we are cared for is very healing in its very nature and also opens our hearts to the reality of the situation and reinforces our knowledge that we are helpless to the addiction.
Do Monsters Exist?
Once we admit to ourselves and others that we are addicted, another phase of our healing takes place. People who have experienced this know that Monsters exist. We reach out with an open mind and accept the advice and instruction of trusted individuals that we admire and trust. When this occurs, the Monster within becomes visible to us for what it is. The friendship of our addiction changes before our very eyes into the horrid “Monster” that is has always been. The blinders are removed — we can see it now for what it is.
This is a very important step because as long as the addicted individual believes that smokeless tobacco is their friend, their confidante, their alliance, then healing is impossible. What true friend would ever turn on another? True friends do not do that.
That is why it is so important that the addicted person become aware for themselves that tobacco is not a friend, but a very frightening and dangerous “Monster” that will, over time, destroy them and hurt those that they love.
Education
When the addicted person has removed their blinders and seen the addiction for the Monster it is and reached out in helplessness to their support group, there is another factor that helps them along in their journey out of the abyss of addiction into the light of logic. That factor is education. Education about their addiction, methods that have been proven effective for the majority of those who have come before them in terms of helping them to quit dip or chew.
This education can take many forms. One of the most accepted forms is a cessation program which follows proven, clinical procedures while surrounding the individual with a friendly, caring and supportive atmosphere of mutual benefit. Yes, mutual benefit, because a program only works when both the teacher and the student benefit and learn from one another. Who is the teacher and
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Most people who are in the very throes of addiction believe that they are in control. The old saying, “We are our strongest when we are our weakest”, applies to the certain knowledge within our own selves that we are addicted. It is reinforced by the certain knowledge that when we open ourselves to others in our weakest moments, their help saves our program through their strength and our very weakness that allows them to reach out to us also allows them to strengthen their program even more!
This is when the healing can truly begin. When we are “on our knees” before our own consciousness and peers, we are then faced with reality. The reality that we are no longer in control of our lives. If we wish to regain that control, reach out to the caring hands that are extended to us...the healing begins.
The blinders of our own self-denial fall away as the pure and certain knowledge of our addiction is admitted. Admission is the key to our accepting help. The help of others, a support group of family, friends, other cessation members, etc., is where it all begins. To know that we are not alone and that we are cared for is very healing in its very nature and also opens our hearts to the reality of the situation and reinforces our knowledge that we are helpless to the addiction.
Do Monsters Exist?
Once we admit to ourselves and others that we are addicted, another phase of our healing takes place. People who have experienced this know that Monsters exist. We reach out with an open mind and accept the advice and instruction of trusted individuals that we admire and trust. When this occurs, the Monster within becomes visible to us for what it is. The friendship of our addiction changes before our very eyes into the horrid “Monster” that is has always been. The blinders are removed — we can see it now for what it is.
This is a very important step because as long as the addicted individual believes that smokeless tobacco is their friend, their confidante, their alliance, then healing is impossible. What true friend would ever turn on another? True friends do not do that.
That is why it is so important that the addicted person become aware for themselves that tobacco is not a friend, but a very frightening and dangerous “Monster” that will, over time, destroy them and hurt those that they love.
Education
When the addicted person has removed their blinders and seen the addiction for the Monster it is and reached out in helplessness to their support group, there is another factor that helps them along in their journey out of the abyss of addiction into the light of logic. That factor is education. Education about their addiction, methods that have been proven effective for the majority of those who have come before them in terms of helping them to quit dip or chew.
This education can take many forms. One of the most accepted forms is a cessation program which follows proven, clinical procedures while surrounding the individual with a friendly, caring and supportive atmosphere of mutual benefit. Yes, mutual benefit, because a program only works when both the teacher and the student benefit and learn from one another. Who is the teacher and
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The blinders of our own self-denial fall away as the pure and certain knowledge of our addiction is admitted. Admission is the key to our accepting help. The help of others, a support group of family, friends, other cessation members, etc., is where it all begins. To know that we are not alone and that we are cared for is very healing in its very nature and also opens our hearts to the reality of the situation and reinforces our knowledge that we are helpless to the addiction.
Do Monsters Exist?
Once we admit to ourselves and others that we are addicted, another phase of our healing takes place. People who have experienced this know that Monsters exist. We reach out with an open mind and accept the advice and instruction of trusted individuals that we admire and trust. When this occurs, the Monster within becomes visible to us for what it is. The friendship of our addiction changes before our very eyes into the horrid “Monster” that is has always been. The blinders are removed — we can see it now for what it is.
This is a very important step because as long as the addicted individual believes that smokeless tobacco is their friend, their confidante, their alliance, then healing is impossible. What true friend would ever turn on another? True friends do not do that.
That is why it is so important that the addicted person become aware for themselves that tobacco is not a friend, but a very frightening and dangerous “Monster” that will, over time, destroy them and hurt those that they love.
Education
When the addicted person has removed their blinders and seen the addiction for the Monster it is and reached out in helplessness to their support group, there is another factor that helps them along in their journey out of the abyss of addiction into the light of logic. That factor is education. Education about their addiction, methods that have been proven effective for the majority of those who have come before them in terms of helping them to quit dip or chew.
This education can take many forms. One of the most accepted forms is a cessation program which follows proven, clinical procedures while surrounding the individual with a friendly, caring and supportive atmosphere of mutual benefit. Yes, mutual benefit, because a program only works when both the teacher and the student benefit and learn from one another. Who is the teacher and
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This is a very important step because as long as the addicted individual believes that smokeless tobacco is their friend, their confidante, their alliance, then healing is impossible. What true friend would ever turn on another? True friends do not do that.
That is why it is so important that the addicted person become aware for themselves that tobacco is not a friend, but a very frightening and dangerous “Monster” that will, over time, destroy them and hurt those that they love.
Education
When the addicted person has removed their blinders and seen the addiction for the Monster it is and reached out in helplessness to their support group, there is another factor that helps them along in their journey out of the abyss of addiction into the light of logic. That factor is education. Education about their addiction, methods that have been proven effective for the majority of those who have come before them in terms of helping them to quit dip or chew.
This education can take many forms. One of the most accepted forms is a cessation program which follows proven, clinical procedures while surrounding the individual with a friendly, caring and supportive atmosphere of mutual benefit. Yes, mutual benefit, because a program only works when both the teacher and the student benefit and learn from one another. Who is the teacher and
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When the addicted person has removed their blinders and seen the addiction for the Monster it is and reached out in helplessness to their support group, there is another factor that helps them along in their journey out of the abyss of addiction into the light of logic. That factor is education. Education about their addiction, methods that have been proven effective for the majority of those who have come before them in terms of helping them to quit dip or chew.
This education can take many forms. One of the most accepted forms is a cessation program which follows proven, clinical procedures while surrounding the individual with a friendly, caring and supportive atmosphere of mutual benefit. Yes, mutual benefit, because a program only works when both the teacher and the student benefit and learn from one another. Who is the teacher and who is the student? It becomes a very difficult task to discern the student from the teacher as time goes by in a solid, mutually beneficial cessation program.
The very essence of a good cessation program is one of “mutual learning”. When mutual learning takes place, a true cessation program is born. It is in that moment when all principal parties learn, both student and teacher alike that the magic begins to happen! In fact, in true cessation programs the role of student/teacher changes back and forth as strength and weakness ebbs in each principle party involved!
Aftercare
What does the term “Aftercare” mean? This is care that comes “after” the cessation program has aided the member to become free of the physical pangs of nicotine withdrawal and while they are still actively working on the behavioral aspects of their programs. Behavioral and psychological triggers beset the individual member in varying degrees and at different times.
Many of the behavioral triggers are completely subjective. They affect one individual and not another. It is easy to recognize the objective, outward triggers, such as, right after a big meal, when in a traffic jam, etc. These affect us all in varying degrees. The subjective, inward, triggers are the ones that only affect the individual to any degree.
I have seen a person nearly lose their program over a dip while listening to a certain song on the radio, while another person was not even affected. Subjective “sleeper triggers” are the silent enemy that we have to be prepared for and ready to face when they appear out of nowhere. This is the job of aftercare—the continuing study and preparation for the sleeper trigger “snipers” that can and do...linger for weeks, months, even years into an individual’s program.
Monsters Love Empty Spots
I would like to go on the record for having stated that Monsters can only hide in ignorance. They can only become dangerous to us in the darkness of our addictions. Once the light of cessation shines upon the darkness of our obsession, it becomes obvious to even the most brainwashed individual that the Monster lies within. It dwells within everyone of us who has ever allowed it to enter the parlor of our souls in the first place. It never goes away...it just slumbers.
This is the continuous battle that we Aftercare members face daily. Our goal is to keep the Monster within us asleep. Perpetual hibernation for the Monster is paramount to our continued, tobacco-free existence! Our Cessation program never ends—it just enters into a state of metamorphosis and magically changes into something different and even more beautiful than a butterfly as time passes in our programs. It blossoms into a phase of our program entitled "Aftercare". Aftercare becomes a lifestyle, a comfortable lifestyle of helping others, which creates the silver umbilical cord and life-sustaining nourishment to each of our programs!
With cessation comes responsibility. Responsibility to ourselves and to those who are in cessation with us. We become a family. As in any family, a person must believe and care about those in his/her family in order for “the family” to thrive. It is said that a baby will die if it doesn’t receive enough human attention over time. The same holds true for adults...it just takes longer. For adults, sometimes loneliness leaves blank spots within our cor
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