Atricle Dump
#1 in Business Subscribe Email Print

You are here: Home > Health and Fitness > Quit Smoking > Smokeless Tobacco: The Monster Within

Tags

  • follows
  • adultsit
  • reality
  • cessation programs
  • cared enough
  • completely subjective

  • Links

  • Why Hunt? Part 2
  • South African Kruger National Park Seasons Travel Information
  • Essential Supplies for your New Baby
  • Atricle Dump - Smokeless Tobacco: The Monster Within

    7 Easy Ways to Convert That Web Traffic Into Cold-Hard Cash
    So you've done the work, you've made your website, you're receiving the traffic... but where is the cash? Sorry but that is just two pieces in the marketing puzzle, you also need to know how to convert that traffic into cash. You will need to learn the secrets of copywriting. Below are seven tips that you can instantly utilize to turn your web traffic into cash.#1 – Reveal Your Major Benefit ImmediatelyMake sure you grab them right away with a bold, sizzling headline. You want to grab them by the throat; in a nurturing way. Tell them what they want to know... Why am I reading this?#2 – Build Your Opt-In ListYou will hear it over and over again... “Your money is in the list” ...and it is true, so build it. Offer a free report, newsletter, course or ebook. Just give something of value away for free and you will have no problem building your list. Utilize squeeze pages.#3 – Prove Your ClaimsWhat can you do? We live in a world of skepticism. Nobody believes anybody about anything these days without proof, so prove what you say is true and people will buy. Giving away free trial versions or teaser versions of your products is a very effective way for generating the sale.#4 – Use Narrow MarginsDid you know that most people have a hard time reading anything that is too wide. That is why newspapers and magazine always use columns.#5 – Use Quotations Around Your Headlines“Studies have shown that 27% more people wil
    is like a Vampyre—always stalking in the fertile fields of loneliness and need for acceptance—looking for new, potential victims. Like its counterpart, the Vampyre of myth, it begins to look for weaknesses and asks nicely to be allowed in. We are just fine until we open the “door” to this terribly insidious entity.

    Once it is invited in and is asked to stay awhile, it never really leaves. It continues to suck most logical thinking from our brains while leaving its filthy, vile but soothing poison within our minds for the sole purpose of tempting us to continue to allow it to stay awake and active within us. It can be put to sleep and kept asleep as long as the addicted person lives within the rules of cessation. Sometimes, the cessation member slips, and the Monster awakens!

    This is what happens so often without a proper, adequate, and caring cessation program that is actively pursued and participated in by other, like-minded individuals who support one another in their weakest moments on a daily basis!

    Those empty spots within us long to be filled and filling them is our quest in this life. What we fill them with usually determines addiction or non-addiction. For a newbie in the tobacco cessation arena, it isn’t always obvious just what the problem is in his/her life. They are surrounded by loving family, friends, and work associates. Then why do they feel loneliness in terms of cessation? It is my belief that they feel it where cessation is concerned because the chew/dip is their only friend in this arena.

    Those who care about them usually harass them to quit, thinking that if the addicted person loved or cared enough about them they would quit before it is too late and before they suffer health problems from it. This thought frightens the concerned person in the addict’s life and creates an atmosphere of desperation and fear. This is usually expressed as anger and distain.

    The logical, nicotine-free person Toxic Communication - An Example of the Cycle of Conflict in Relationships
    Do you have toxic communication in your relationship? This is an example of how someone would explain to their partner how the dynamics of their communication concerning their relationship problem played out. The conversation would start out like this.I remember so many times when we would tell the other that we did not understand something that had happened or could not figure out the meaning of an action or word between us, that had caused so many of the problems.I really believe it is because many times we would have already formed an opinion, perception or assumptions regarding certain situations. They were based on past experience and some were based on recent experiences. Back then, we both ruminated a lot and this caused those opinions, perceptions and assumptions to become very strongly embedded in our belief system.It seems that the scenario would play out this way;There would be a subject that would tap into the past or present experiences. This would bleed the fearful memory into the thought of the subject for one of us. It would then tap into one of the many emotions of anxiety, worry, loss of control, guilt, insecurity, abandonment etc. associated with that memory.Then, I believe this would trigger us to ruminate on the subject. When we ruminate, we are not able to see past our fears and distinguish between past experience and/or present realities. We then develop the misperception and inaccurate assumptions about this certain

    Introduction

    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 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 core being...that need filling. Enter: the Monster.

    Profile of a Monster

    The monster, as stated earlier, is like a Vampyre—always stalking in the fertile fields of loneliness and need for acceptance—looking for new, potential victims. Like its counterpart, the Vampyre of myth, it begins to look for weaknesses and asks nicely to be allowed in. We are just fine until we open the “door” to this terribly insidious entity.

    Once it is invited in and is asked to stay awhile, it never really leaves. It continues to suck most logical thinking from our brains while leaving its filthy, vile but soothing poison within our minds for the sole purpose of tempting us to continue to allow it to stay awake and active within us. It can be put to sleep and kept asleep as long as the addicted person lives within the rules of cessation. Sometimes, the cessation member slips, and the Monster awakens!

    This is what happens so often without a proper, adequate, and caring cessation program that is actively pursued and participated in by other, like-minded individuals who support one another in their weakest moments on a daily basis!

    Those empty spots within us long to be filled and filling them is our quest in this life. What we fill them with usually determines addiction or non-addiction. For a newbie in the tobacco cessation arena, it isn’t always obvious just what the problem is in his/her life. They are surrounded by loving family, friends, and work associates. Then why do they feel loneliness in terms of cessation? It is my belief that they feel it where cessation is concerned because the chew/dip is their only friend in this arena.

    Those who care about them usually harass them to quit, thinking that if the addicted person loved or cared enough about them they would quit before it is too late and before they suffer health problems from it. This thought frightens the concerned person in the addict’s life and creates an atmosphere of desperation and fear. This is usually expressed as anger and distain.

    The logical, nicotine-free person

    5 Reasons Why Alcohol Will Destroy Your Muscle Gains
    I receive emails every single day from aspiring muscle-builders all over the world, and one of the most common questions I’m asked is “does drinking really affect the muscle growth process?” I’m sorry to say it, but yes, too much alcohol will almost definitely have a significant negative impact on your muscle-building results. Alcohol is far more harmful than most people think, and it’s very important that you understand how this drug (yes, alcohol is a drug) is affecting your progress. This is not an anti-drug speech, but if you’re serious about achieving a truly impressive physique, you should definitely be aware of the 5 main ways that alcohol is slowing down your gains…1) It negatively affects protein synthesis.Protein synthesis is the process where amino acids are joined together to form complete proteins. Excessive alcohol consumption slows this process down by up to 20%, and since your muscles are made up of protein, you can see how this is a problem.2) It lowers testosterone levels and increases estrogen.Testosterone is the most important muscle-building hormone in your body. One of the limiting factors that determines how much muscle a person can gain is their level of free-flowing testosterone.3) It causes dehydration.The kidneys must filter very large amounts of water in order to break down the alcohol, and this can result in severe dehydration within the body. Water plays an absolutely crucial role in the muscle-building
    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 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 core being...that need filling. Enter: the Monster.

    Profile of a Monster

    The monster, as stated earlier, is like a Vampyre—always stalking in the fertile fields of loneliness and need for acceptance—looking for new, potential victims. Like its counterpart, the Vampyre of myth, it begins to look for weaknesses and asks nicely to be allowed in. We are just fine until we open the “door” to this terribly insidious entity.

    Once it is invited in and is asked to stay awhile, it never really leaves. It continues to suck most logical thinking from our brains while leaving its filthy, vile but soothing poison within our minds for the sole purpose of tempting us to continue to allow it to stay awake and active within us. It can be put to sleep and kept asleep as long as the addicted person lives within the rules of cessation. Sometimes, the cessation member slips, and the Monster awakens!

    This is what happens so often without a proper, adequate, and caring cessation program that is actively pursued and participated in by other, like-minded individuals who support one another in their weakest moments on a daily basis!

    Those empty spots within us long to be filled and filling them is our quest in this life. What we fill them with usually determines addiction or non-addiction. For a newbie in the tobacco cessation arena, it isn’t always obvious just what the problem is in his/her life. They are surrounded by loving family, friends, and work associates. Then why do they feel loneliness in terms of cessation? It is my belief that they feel it where cessation is concerned because the chew/dip is their only friend in this arena.

    Those who care about them usually harass them to quit, thinking that if the addicted person loved or cared enough about them they would quit before it is too late and before they suffer health problems from it. This thought frightens the concerned person in the addict’s life and creates an atmosphere of desperation and fear. This is usually expressed as anger and distain.

    The logical, nicotine-free person Merchant Service Becomes Increasingly Affordable
    As consumers grow more comfortable with purchasing products online, more and more businesses are expanding to provide services and products on the internet. In order to accept payment, these businesses must implement a merchant service solution to process payments. In past years merchant service packages were very costly, with credit card payment processing systems costing as much as merchant accounts used by physical retail stores. Many smaller businesses simply cannot afford the expenses involved in maintaining these traditional merchant accounts.The good news is that as internet business continues to grow, merchant service packages have become progressively more affordable. What used to cost businesses hundreds of dollars per month, not including individual transaction fees, for basic merchant account services, is now available for a fraction of the cost. In part the lower costs of merchant operation with regard to the processing of payments online are due to improved payment processing software as well as other integration improvements between database information and point of sale websites.Merchant service accounts for processing online payments have also become highly sought by those taking part in the online auction industry. Cheaper, revolutionized forms of online payment processing have made it possible for even the smallest businesses and individual sellers to accept payments online. There are several popular merchant services provided by internet comation 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 core being...that need filling. Enter: the Monster.

    Profile of a Monster

    The monster, as stated earlier, is like a Vampyre—always stalking in the fertile fields of loneliness and need for acceptance—looking for new, potential victims. Like its counterpart, the Vampyre of myth, it begins to look for weaknesses and asks nicely to be allowed in. We are just fine until we open the “door” to this terribly insidious entity.

    Once it is invited in and is asked to stay awhile, it never really leaves. It continues to suck most logical thinking from our brains while leaving its filthy, vile but soothing poison within our minds for the sole purpose of tempting us to continue to allow it to stay awake and active within us. It can be put to sleep and kept asleep as long as the addicted person lives within the rules of cessation. Sometimes, the cessation member slips, and the Monster awakens!

    This is what happens so often without a proper, adequate, and caring cessation program that is actively pursued and participated in by other, like-minded individuals who support one another in their weakest moments on a daily basis!

    Those empty spots within us long to be filled and filling them is our quest in this life. What we fill them with usually determines addiction or non-addiction. For a newbie in the tobacco cessation arena, it isn’t always obvious just what the problem is in his/her life. They are surrounded by loving family, friends, and work associates. Then why do they feel loneliness in terms of cessation? It is my belief that they feel it where cessation is concerned because the chew/dip is their only friend in this arena.

    Those who care about them usually harass them to quit, thinking that if the addicted person loved or cared enough about them they would quit before it is too late and before they suffer health problems from it. This thought frightens the concerned person in the addict’s life and creates an atmosphere of desperation and fear. This is usually expressed as anger and distain.

    The logical, nicotine-free person MLM: The Painful, New Reality In The Information Age
    Before the internet, organizations and companies were protected by an information buffer zone which shielded them from this onslaught of people, opinions, competitors, and ads.It’s this buffer zone that allowed relationships to be built, skills to be learned, and loyalties to strengthened.But the internet destroyed it in the blink of an eye.It happens all the time...You're sitting pretty on top of a fairly large organization. You think you've finally found that "residual" pot of income gold at the end of the rainbow.You're making about $20,000 a month. You quit your job 5 months ago, bought a new house, that new sports car you've always wanted, and paid off all your debt.Life is good...Then one day, the company changes their compensation plan just a little bit.One of your leaders is NOT happy about it. They decide to move to another company and with one click of a mouse, with one single email to his list of a few thousand recipients upline, downline and side-line, he basically destroys dozens of people's businesses, cutting their checks in half or even worse. Including yours.The income you're relying on to pay the mortgage, invest for retirement, and put your kids through school literally vanishes overnight.If something similar to this scenario hasn't happened to you yet, it most likely will.It's a sobering thought when you realize that your lively hood in a MLM business is completely dependent upon 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 core being...that need filling. Enter: the Monster.

    Profile of a Monster

    The monster, as stated earlier, is like a Vampyre—always stalking in the fertile fields of loneliness and need for acceptance—looking for new, potential victims. Like its counterpart, the Vampyre of myth, it begins to look for weaknesses and asks nicely to be allowed in. We are just fine until we open the “door” to this terribly insidious entity.

    Once it is invited in and is asked to stay awhile, it never really leaves. It continues to suck most logical thinking from our brains while leaving its filthy, vile but soothing poison within our minds for the sole purpose of tempting us to continue to allow it to stay awake and active within us. It can be put to sleep and kept asleep as long as the addicted person lives within the rules of cessation. Sometimes, the cessation member slips, and the Monster awakens!

    This is what happens so often without a proper, adequate, and caring cessation program that is actively pursued and participated in by other, like-minded individuals who support one another in their weakest moments on a daily basis!

    Those empty spots within us long to be filled and filling them is our quest in this life. What we fill them with usually determines addiction or non-addiction. For a newbie in the tobacco cessation arena, it isn’t always obvious just what the problem is in his/her life. They are surrounded by loving family, friends, and work associates. Then why do they feel loneliness in terms of cessation? It is my belief that they feel it where cessation is concerned because the chew/dip is their only friend in this arena.

    Those who care about them usually harass them to quit, thinking that if the addicted person loved or cared enough about them they would quit before it is too late and before they suffer health problems from it. This thought frightens the concerned person in the addict’s life and creates an atmosphere of desperation and fear. This is usually expressed as anger and distain.

    The logical, nicotine-free person All About Coral Calcium
    What is it?Coral calcium has, over the last few years, quickly ascended to become one of the most popular supplements of all time, capturing the imagination of millions. As such, many absolutely ludicrous claims have been attributed to this nutrient, in an attempt to capitalize on the frenzy. Nutritional-Supplement-Info.com will separate the myth and the hype from the truth, in a straightforward fashion.First, Coral calcium, as the name implies, comes from coral reefs in the ocean off the islands of Japan, particularly Okinawa. Coral reefs are living organisms; however, coral calcium supplements are produced from deceased coral. The coral is high in calcium content due to the tiny polyps, which feed on an abundance of mineral rich plankton.The coral is not killed to make supplements, but rather dies of natural processes. Once it dies, the coral either descends to the ocean floor or becomes washed up on shore. Coral calcium supplements produced from the coral on the ocean bottom are called “below sea,” sometimes also referred to as “marine coral calcium”; the supplements produced from coral that was washed up on shore are called “above sea" or "fossilized coral calcium."The distinction between below sea and above sea is crucial. Here’s why:Coral that is harvested from the ocean is highly contaminated. Oceans throughout the world, with Japan being no exception, harbor a great deal of industrial pollutants, and PCB’s (Pesticide residues is like a Vampyre—always stalking in the fertile fields of loneliness and need for acceptance—looking for new, potential victims. Like its counterpart, the Vampyre of myth, it begins to look for weaknesses and asks nicely to be allowed in. We are just fine until we open the “door” to this terribly insidious entity.

    Once it is invited in and is asked to stay awhile, it never really leaves. It continues to suck most logical thinking from our brains while leaving its filthy, vile but soothing poison within our minds for the sole purpose of tempting us to continue to allow it to stay awake and active within us. It can be put to sleep and kept asleep as long as the addicted person lives within the rules of cessation. Sometimes, the cessation member slips, and the Monster awakens!

    This is what happens so often without a proper, adequate, and caring cessation program that is actively pursued and participated in by other, like-minded individuals who support one another in their weakest moments on a daily basis!

    Those empty spots within us long to be filled and filling them is our quest in this life. What we fill them with usually determines addiction or non-addiction. For a newbie in the tobacco cessation arena, it isn’t always obvious just what the problem is in his/her life. They are surrounded by loving family, friends, and work associates. Then why do they feel loneliness in terms of cessation? It is my belief that they feel it where cessation is concerned because the chew/dip is their only friend in this arena.

    Those who care about them usually harass them to quit, thinking that if the addicted person loved or cared enough about them they would quit before it is too late and before they suffer health problems from it. This thought frightens the concerned person in the addict’s life and creates an atmosphere of desperation and fear. This is usually expressed as anger and distain.

    The logical, nicotine-free person just cannot understand the befuddled, illogical, thinking of the addicted person’s mind. The addicted person feels even more withdrawn, alone in the crowd, and relies even more heavily upon the object of their addiction. The non-addicted person just has no idea how reliant we addicts become on the object of our addiction. It has become our bane, our solace, our shelter from the storms of life. Instead of coping mechanisms, we turn to Cope or other nicotine products.

    When confronted in such a negative manner about our addiction we are just being encouraged to run to our old “friend”even more. And the circle continues.

    What to do?

    Even when in the illogical, befuddled state of addiction, we know the truth. The Monster keeps us from admitting it to others and even from ourselves...but we know. When we feel deeply enough inside that we need and want to quit, there is a door that creaks open within our minds and allows enough logic to enter our thinking that we say, “I need to quit this crap!”

    The only way to put the Monster to sleep and to keep him asleep is to separate yourself from your addiction and replace it with something positive. My recommendation is a program where the people are receptive of you and desire to help you while they help themselves. A program that gives you sound advice and education about your addiction and yourself, and offers you a lifetime of Aftercare amid newly formed bonds of friendship with other people who understand.

    We have such a program here at Stop Smokeless.com. Look around and if you agree with me that this is the place to be...join with us. If you decide that we aren’t for you...find someplace that is. You deserve it.

    We provide a FREE eBook that you can read by following this link: "Stop Using Smokeless Tobacco Now!"

    HTTP = HTML link (for blogs, profiles,phorums):
    <a href="http://www.articledump.net/article/263369/articledump-Smokeless-Tobacco-The-Monster-Within.html">Smokeless Tobacco: The Monster Within</a>

    BB link (for phorums):
    [url=http://www.articledump.net/article/263369/articledump-Smokeless-Tobacco-The-Monster-Within.html]Smokeless Tobacco: The Monster Within[/url]

    Related Articles:

    Starter Website Plan for a Service Business

    Ezine Articles Dot Com

    Strong, Sexy Abs - Why Don't I See Them?

    Bookmark it: del.icio.us digg.com reddit.com netvouz.com google.com yahoo.com technorati.com furl.net bloglines.com socialdust.com ma.gnolia.com newsvine.com slashdot.org simpy.com shadows.com blinklist.com