NRT is available from your VA provider at a low cost or at your neighborhood drugstore without a prescription. If you plan to use NRT, have it available on your quit day. NRT will give you the most benefit if you use it as recommended. Visit our NRT page to learn more about the different types of NRT, proper dosing, and how to combine methods for the best chance of quitting. There are also other medications that can help you quit. Medications such as the prescriptions varenicline or bupropion, can double your chances of quitting for good.
Using medication can help you keep committed to quitting for yourself and others. Talk to your VA health care provider about medications to help you quit chewing or dipping. It is hard to quit chewing or dipping on your own, but there are lots of resources to help you quit.
An hour, a day, or any time without dipping or chewing tobacco is something to celebrate. Take time to feel proud of yourself. Check out tobacco-free ways to celebrate your successes. Exercise is good for the body and mind! Even 10 minutes of exercise can release chemicals in your brain that lift your mood. Fact: Dip has more nicotine than cigarettes, and the nicotine in dip stays in your blood longer than nicotine from smoking. Toggle navigation. Pick a Quit Date Every day is a good day to stop chewing tobacco or dipping.
Understand Nicotine Withdrawal After you quit, you may feel uncomfortable and crave a chew or dip. During withdrawal, you may: Feel a little depressed. Be unable to sleep. Become cranky, frustrated, or mad.
Feel anxious, nervous, or restless. Have trouble thinking clearly. Learn How to Handle Triggers and Cravings Triggers are specific people, places, or activities that make you want to chew or dip.
Some common ones are: Waking up during the night or having nightmares After meals or during breaks Driving Stress or pain Feeling anxious, angry, impatient, or bored Seeing someone else smoke, chew, or dip Drinking coffee or alcohol After sex Before bedtime Watching TV or a live game Playing a sport Triggers can cause cravings.
Use Nicotine Replacement Therapy One way to deal with nicotine withdrawal is to try nicotine replacement therapy NRT like nicotine gum and patches. Did you get rid of all your smokeless tobacco products? Maybe you tried to quit on your own without telling anyone?
Was there a particular situation that prompted you to start chewing again? If so, what happened and how can you prevent it from happening again? While you are quitting, you may get cravings for smokeless tobacco every once and a while. Many people have withdrawal symptoms when they try to quit using snuff or chew tobacco.
These symptoms are usually strongest the first week after you quit. The withdrawal symptoms listed in Common Problems in Quitting are some of the most common symptoms for smokers and many also apply to smokeless tobacco users. Review the advice to help with smoking withdrawal symptoms. In addition, the following may help you deal with withdrawal symptoms from quitting smokeless tobacco.
Remind yourself why you want to quit. Keep reminding yourself of these reasons and how far you have come in achieving your goal to remain tobacco-free. Rehearse often what you will do to handle the urge when a high-risk situation arises.
Quitting can be very difficult, so be prepared for temptations to start using smokeless tobacco again by recognizing triggers. These urges will be strongest the first week after quitting and will be strongest in places and situations where you used to use snuff or chew.
The following may be helpful when dealing with triggers: Write down events and situations that may trigger use and plan ahead for them. Write down things you will do in these situations instead of using smokeless tobacco like reaching for gum, brushing your teeth, or simply walking away from the situation. Avoid alcohol, which could trigger use. No more red, sore gums. Those white patches in your mouth disappear. Your risk of cancers caused by smokeless tobacco cheek, gums, mouth, tongue, throat, stomach lessens each year, to the point where it is almost as if you'd never used smokeless tobacco.
Quitting is very difficult and takes a lot of effort. Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center. Advertising on our site helps support our mission. We do not endorse non-Cleveland Clinic products or services.
Dipping tobacco, or moist snuff, is highly addictive and comes with many of the same health risks as smoking. But, because it contains nicotine, it also comes with many of same withdrawal symptoms for people trying to quit, says pulmonologist Humberto Choi, MD , including cravings, anxiety, nausea and headache. Do you or someone you know dip?
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