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