The smokeless tobacco addiction is every bit as devastating and dangerous as a cigarette addiction - maybe even more so. In fact, many proclaim that it is even more insidious. It has been been glamourized by sports professionals. Many people who dip or chew smokeless tobacco started as early as nine years of age! And by the time that many of these kids turn 18, they are overcome by mouth and throat cancer, and many are dying. There is nothing quite as ugly as a face ravaged by tumors or cancer, except maybe how the victim's face looks after having surgery to amputate the jawbone, lips, or tongue. Unfortunately, in most cases the surgical massacre of the victim's face really doesn't matter, because they are dead within a year anyway. The experts tell us that the physical addiction to Nicotine is broken after abstaining for seven days. But the psychological part of the addiction is far stronger and may take a much longer time and a lot more effort to overcome, which makes it very difficult to give up smokeless tobacco. There are three distinct elements contained in the addiction to dip. Two of the elements are emotional/mental, and only one part is physical. Part A: YOU CHEW TOBACCO FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE. When you were a tot and you got cranky, your mother would put a bottle into your mouth to pacify you. You would get distracted, become calmer, and often go to sleep. That scenario was repeated hundreds of times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it. Now that you are an adult, if you feel agitated, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - chew! Part B: CHEWING IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE. Remember Pavlov? Every time that he fed his dogs he rang a bell. After a few repetitions, all he had to do was to ring the bell, and the sound of the bell would trigger the dogs to salivate. When you connect together chewing tobacco with any other action, the other action will trigger cravings for tobacco and a urge to chew smokeless tobacco. This is called a conditioned response. For example: If you chew smokeless tobacco when you play baseball, you will automatically get an urge to chew smokeless tobacco each time you play baseball. Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your unconscious: If a person chews and simultaneously drives a car, the mind takes a snapshot of the dip in the hand, and ties it to the image of the steering wheel, dashboard, or view out the windshield, etc.. Thereafter, every time the person drives the car, her mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of the chew in the hand coming towards the mouth, and the dipper gets a craving for chewing tobacco. You may not be consciously aware of the mental picture of the chewing tobacco, because it may only be at the unconscious level of mind. Just as you are unaware of what you are seeing through your peripheral vision until someone or something draws your attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for smokeless tobacco. Part C: THERE IS A PHYSICAL ADDICTION TO NICOTINE, BUT . . . I've worked one-on-one with several thousand people for tobacco addiction and I guarantee you that the physical addiction is the weakest part of the addiction to smokeless tobacco. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction to smokeless. I believe that ninety percent of the addiction are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B). HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A PERSON WHO DIPS SHOKELESS TOBACCO AND WHO WANTS TO QUIT. What this means is that as soon as you eliminate the anxiety that pushes you to put dip into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and when you erase the conditioned response of feeling a compulsion for smokeless tobacco when watching TV, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up smokeless without requiring willpower, and without having to experience withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight. Hypnosis will make it easy to break the addiction to smokeless because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how: Part A is where dippers dip smokeless for relaxation and pleasure. It's a person's thoughts that create feelings of anxiety. More to the point, people constantly play mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it brings on a feeling of tension. We can use different hypnotic methods to program the subconscious mind to quickly and easily take those stress producing mental images, and quickly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This manufactures relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the stress that triggers the oral cravings and compulsions for dipping. Because of the elimination of stress, the person who is quitting doesn't experience the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the dip. So quitting without weight gain is possible. Stopping the addiction to smokeless is very similar to overcoming the addiction to food, cigarettes, and nail biting. I have many additional original articles on these topics in my free article library. Part B is where people chew smokeless tobacco because dipping smokeless becomes a conditioned response to many different activities and locations. Remember in the earlier example how smoking became unconsciously associated with other activities and environments so that each time you get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of smokeless, and the image of the smokeless causes cravings for smokeless? There are efficient hypnosis methods that can quickly erase those conditioned responses so that your unconscious mind will lose the cravings for chew, and the compulsion to chew. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject chewing. IN SUMMATION In summation, by utilizing certain hypnotic techniques, it becomes very easy to stop chewing without weight gain or having to suffer from withdrawal. And many of these techniques don't even depend on post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the unconscious mind to use the same mental processes that it is using to create the addiction to dipping smokeless tobacco, to eliminate the mental addiction.
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