How To Break The Smokeless Tobacco Addiction
The smokeless tobacco addiction is every bit as deadly as a cigarette addiction - maybe even more so
. In fact, most proclaim that it is even more insidious. It has been been glamourized by influential sports heroes who chew, and many have started their habit as early as the age of nine. And by the time that many of these kids turn eighteen, they are overcome by mouth and throat cancer, and may be 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.
Doctors tell us that the physical part of the Nicotine addiction 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 3 distinct elements contained in a dipping habit. Two of the elements are mental, and only one part is physical.
Part A: You Cchew For Relaxation And Pleasure.
When you were a child and you got cranky, your mother would put a nipple into your mouth to calm you down. You would get distracted, become calm, and often fall asleep. That scenario was repeated dozens 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 a grownup, if you feel anxious or tense, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - chewing tobacco!
Part B: Dipping Tobacco Is A Conditioned Response.
Remember Pavlov? Every time that he fed his dogs he would ring 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 with any other activity, the other activity will trigger cravings for tobacco and a urge to chew. This is called a conditioned response.
For example: If you chew when you watch a movie, you will automatically get an urge to chew each time you go to the movies.
Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your subconscious: If a person dips smokeless and simultaneously drives a car, the mind takes a snapshot of the smokeless tobacco 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, his subconscious mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of the dip in the hand coming towards the mouth, and the dipper gets a craving for smokeless.
You may not be consciously aware of the mental movie of the smokeless, because it may only be at the subconscious 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.
Part C: There Is A Physical Addiction To Nicotine, But . . .
I've worked face-to-face with several thousand people for tobacco addiction and I guarantee you that the physical addiction to smokeless tobacco is the weakest part of the addiction. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction to smokeless. I believe that 90% of the habit are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B).
HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A PERSON WHO CHEWS AND WHO WANTS TO QUIT.
What this means is that when you eliminate the anxiety that makes you put dip into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of feeling an urge for dip when watching TV, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can stop dipping tobacco without needing willpower, and without having to suffer from withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.
Self-hypnosis will make it easy to stop chewing because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:
Part A is where people dip for relaxation and pleasure. It's your thoughts that create feelings of tension. More to the point, people constantly play mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it creates a feeling of tension.
We can use various hypnosis and NLP techniques to program the unconscious mind to quickly take those tension producing mental images, and automatically exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This manufactures relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the tension that triggers the oral compulsions and urges for chewing.
Because of the elimination of feelings of anxiety, the person who is quitting doesn't feel the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the smokeless tobacco. So quitting without weight gain is possible.
Breaking the addiction to smokeless tobacco 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 hypnosis and NLP article index.
Part B is where you get cravings for tobacco because dipping smokeless tobacco 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 triggers an urge to dip?
There are efficient and powerful hypnosis and NLP methods that can effortlessly eliminate those conditioned responses so that your subconscious mind will lose the cravings for smokeless, and the compulsion to dip tobacco. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject chewing tobacco.
To Summarize: In summation, when we use certain NLP techniques, it can be very easy to stop chewing tobacco without weight gain or having to suffer from withdrawal. And many of these methods like video hypnosis and NLP do not even require 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, to eliminate the mental addiction.
by: Alan Densky
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