| The smokeless tobacco addiction is every bit as | | | | I've worked face-to-face with several thousand |
| deadly as an addiction to cigarettes - maybe even | | | | people for tobacco cessation and I give you my |
| more so. In fact, many experts believe that it is | | | | personal guarantee that the physical addiction is the |
| even more insidious. Part of the problem is that | | | | weakest part of the addiction to smokeless tobacco. |
| influential sports heroes have glamorized the use of | | | | In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the |
| chew. Many have started their habit as early as the | | | | chewing habit. Ninety percent of the dipping habit are |
| age of nine. And by the time that many of these | | | | the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B). |
| kids turn 18, they are overcome by mouth and | | | | HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A PERSON WHO |
| throat cancer, and may be dying. | | | | DIPS AND WHO WANTS TO QUIT. |
| There is nothing quite as ugly as a face ravaged by | | | | What this means is that when you eliminate the |
| tumors or cancer, except maybe how the victim's | | | | feeling of tension that causes you to chew |
| face looks after having surgery to amputate the | | | | smokeless for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . |
| jawbone, lips, or tongue. Unfortunately, in most cases | | | | and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of |
| the surgical massacre of the victim's face really | | | | feeling cravings for smokeless tobacco when |
| doesn't matter, because they are dead within a year | | | | watching television, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. |
| anyway. | | | | (Part B) . . . then you can give up tobacco without |
| Doctors tell us that the physical part of the Nicotine | | | | needing willpower, and without having to suffer from |
| addiction is broken after abstaining for seven days. | | | | withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight. |
| However, the psychological addiction is much | | | | Hypnosis will make it easy to break the addiction to |
| stronger and takes a lot more time and effort to | | | | smokeless because it takes care of Parts A & B! |
| overcome making it difficult to quit smokeless | | | | Here is how: |
| tobacco. | | | | Part A is where dippers chew smokeless tobacco for |
| There are 3 distinct components to the addiction to | | | | relaxation and pleasure. It's a person's thoughts that |
| tobacco. Two of the elements are mental, and one | | | | create feelings of stress. Moreover, people constantly |
| part is physical. | | | | watch mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie |
| Part A: YOU DIP FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE. | | | | is negative, it creates a feeling of anxiety. |
| When you were an infant and you became upset, | | | | We can use different hypnotic methods to |
| your mother would put a nipple into your mouth to | | | | re-program the unconscious to rapidly take those |
| pacify you. You would get distracted, become | | | | anxiety producing mental pictures, and automatically |
| peaceful, and often go to sleep. That scenario was | | | | exchange them for relaxation producing mental |
| repeated dozens of times so that your unconscious | | | | pictures and movies. This creates relaxation and |
| mind was programmed: When something goes into | | | | pleasure, and obliterates the anxiety that creates the |
| your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it. | | | | oral cravings and compulsions for chewing. |
| Now that you are a grownup, if you feel anxious or | | | | Because of the elimination of feelings of anxiety, the |
| tense, you crave something in your mouth for | | | | person who is quitting does not feel the compulsion |
| relaxation and pleasure - dip! | | | | or need to substitute food in place of the smokeless |
| Part B: CHEWING TOBACCO IS A CONDITIONED | | | | tobacco. So quitting without weight gain is possible. |
| RESPONSE. | | | | Quitting the addiction to smokeless tobacco is very |
| Remember Pavlov? Every time that he fed his dogs | | | | similar to overcoming the addiction to food, |
| he would ring a bell. After several repetitions, he | | | | cigarettes, and nail biting. I have many additional |
| could just ring the bell, and that would trigger the | | | | original articles on these topics in my free NLP & |
| dogs to salivate. | | | | hypnosis article library. |
| When you connect together dipping with any other | | | | Part B is where people chew because dipping |
| behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for | | | | smokeless tobacco becomes a conditioned response |
| tobacco and a urge to chew. This is called a | | | | to many different activities and locations. Remember |
| conditioned response. | | | | in the earlier example how smoking became |
| For example: If you chew when you play baseball, | | | | unconsciously associated with other activities and |
| you will automatically get an urge to chew each time | | | | environments so that each time people get into that |
| you play baseball. | | | | activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of |
| Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets | | | | smokeless, and the image of the smokeless triggers |
| programmed into your unconscious: If a person dips | | | | cravings for smokeless? |
| tobacco and simultaneously drives a car, the mind | | | | There are stop smokeless hypnosis, and quit |
| takes a snapshot of the dip in the hand, and links it | | | | smokeless NLP techniques that can quickly eliminate |
| to the image of the steering wheel, dashboard, or | | | | those conditioned responses so that your |
| view out the windshield, etc.. Thereafter, every time | | | | unconscious will lose the cravings for chew, and the |
| the person drives the car, the unconscious mind fills in | | | | compulsion to dip. As a matter of fact, you can even |
| the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of | | | | get a compulsion to reject chewing tobacco. |
| the chew in the hand coming towards the mouth, | | | | IN SUMMATION |
| and the dipper gets a craving for smokeless. | | | | In summation, when we utilize certain NLP methods, |
| You may not be consciously aware of the mental | | | | it becomes very easy to stop chewing tobacco |
| picture of the smokeless, because it may only be at | | | | without weight gain or having to suffer from |
| the unconscious level of mind. Just as you are | | | | withdrawal. And many of these methods like video |
| unaware of what you are seeing through your | | | | hypnosis and NLP don't even depend on |
| peripheral vision until someone or something draws | | | | post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training |
| your attention to it. But the image is there, creating a | | | | the subconscious mind to use the same mental |
| craving for chewing tobacco. | | | | processes that the mind is using to create the |
| Part C: THERE IS A PHYSICAL ADDICTION TO | | | | addiction to dipping smokeless tobacco, to eliminate |
| NICOTINE, BUT . . . | | | | the mental addiction. |