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