Question 1

can smokeless tobacco cause stomach cancer?

Accepted Answer

Unclear.: Smokeless tobacco describes such a diversity of products.  Unfortunately most manufacturers don't tell the consumer exactly what their products contain.  There are a number of additives which have been attributed to a risk of stomach cancer.  In addition to reducing your risk of stomach cancer, not using smokeless tobacco has a number of other long-term important health benefits.

Question 2

what's the best way to stop using smokeless tobacco?

Accepted Answer

Stopping Addiction: One way to stop an addition like tobacco use is cold turkey. Throw the stuff away and walk. It take a strong conviction to stop this way. Another way is gradual with medical help to wean you off the tobacco addiction. The last form is being forced by circumstances, like oral cancer, to stop using tobacco. Not fun. All bad habits must be replaced by good habits in order to prevent going back.

Question 3

could copd be a result of smokeless tobacco?

Accepted Answer

No: Smokeless tobacco is chewing tobacco and snuff. It causes oral cancer, nicotine addiction, and reproductive health problems. It is not known to cause copd.

Question 4

are you less addicted to tobacco if you use smokeless tobacco?

Accepted Answer

Tobacco Addiction: The addiction to chewing tobacco and smoking tobacco is to the same chemical, mainly nicotine. The nicotine from either source acts on the same pathways of the brain regardless of how it enters the body. Both forms of tobacco use cause cancer and take many lives each year.

Question 5

hi docs, can you tell me if smokeless tobacco are safer then pipes, cigerettes and cigars ?

Accepted Answer

To some extent: in that they are not breathed into the lungs and thus are not a cause of lung cancer, or several of the other cancers where systemic effects of smoked tobacco occur.  They are also not associated with chronic bronchitis or emphysema. However, they ARE highly associated with nicotine dependency, mouth and throat cancer, gum disease and dental problems.

Question 6

how can  smokeless tobacco cause oral cancer?

Accepted Answer

Carcinogens: It is the carcinogens in the tobacco that leach into the soft tissues of your mouth and cause the changes on a cellular level that result in cancer cells forming.

Question 7

how much smokeless tobacco can give you mouth diseases?

Accepted Answer

No one knows: A minimal amount so assume any puts you at risk for disease.

Question 8

is it possible to get oral cancer from smokeless tobacco?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Smokeless tobacco is an important cause of oral cancer. Alcohol is another. See this site for more info.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/tobacco/smokeless-tobacco.

Question 9

hi docs, would tramadol help me get off smokeless tobacco cold turkey?

Accepted Answer

No: Not particularly. The effects of sudden tobacco cessation  - irritability, anxiety, craving - would not be effected by a relatively weak opioid drug like tramadol. This drug also has mild antidepressant-like effects, but that is not likely to help much either.  Cold turkey cessation has the lowest success rates of all the means of stopping, and I do not recommend it. Seek help and a support system.

Question 10

can there be some way to further prevent gum disease while using smokeless tobacco?

Accepted Answer

No: Chewing tobacco is one of the worst things you can do for your oral tissues.  If you have gum disease you are already suffering from a bacterial infection.  Adding chewing tobacco on top of that is only going to make unhealthy tissues worse.  Also you  are greatly increasing the chances of oral cancer.

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