Chewing Tobacco Addictions Can Be Quickly Broken With Hypnosis and NLP

The smokeless tobacco addiction is every bit as debilitating as a cigarette addiction - possibly even more so. In fact, most think that it is even more insidious. Chewing has been glamourized by sports heroes who dip or chew, and many have started their habit as early as the age of nine. And by the time that many of these children turn eighteen, they are devastated by mouth and throat cancer, and many are dying.

 While a person with lung cancer can look normal, the face of a victim of mouth cancer can be an awful sight. Imagine how a face looks after having a jawbone cut out, or the lips or tounge surgically removed. Usually the surgical butchering of the victim's face is all for nothing, because many die within a year or so anyway.

 Doctors tell us that the physical part of the Nicotine addiction is broken after abstaining for seven days. However, the psychological addiction is much stronger and takes a lot more time and effort to overcome making it difficult to quit smokeless tobacco.

There are three distinct components to the addiction to smokeless tobacco. Two of the parts are mental, and one part is physical.

Part A: YOU DIP FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were an infant and you became cranky, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to calm you down. You would get distracted, become more peaceful, and often fall asleep. That sequence of events was repeated many, many 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 fully-grown, if you feel nervous or tense, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - smokeless tobacco!

Part B: DIPPING IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE.

Remember Pavlov? He rang a bell every time that he fed his dogs. After several repetitions, he would just ring the bell, and that would trigger the dogs to salivate.

When you pair dipping 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 watch a movie, you will automatically get an urge to chew smokeless tobacco each time you go to the movies.

Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your unconscious: If a person dips and simultaneously drives a car, the mind takes a picture of the chew 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 unconscious 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 chewing tobacco.

You may not be consciously aware of the mental image 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 something draws your attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for chewing tobacco.

Part C: THERE IS A PHYSICAL ADDICTION TO NICOTINE, BUT . . .

After having worked with several thousand people for tobacco addiction I guarantee that the physical addiction to smokeless tobacco is the weakest part of the smokeless habit. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction. I believe that ninety percent of the habit 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 after you have eliminated the anxiety that makes you dip smokeless to create relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and when you erase the conditioned response of feeling urges for dip when watching television, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up dipping without requiring willpower, and without having to experience withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight.

Self-hypnosis will make it easy to break the addiction to tobacco because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:

Part A is where you dip smokeless for relaxation and pleasure. It's a person's thoughts that create feelings of anxiety. More to the point, people persistently play mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it manufactures a feeling of anxiety.

We can use different hypnotic methods to re-program the mind to quickly take those stress producing mental pictures, and quickly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This manufactures relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the stress that causes the oral urges for chewing.

Because of the elimination of stressful feelings, the person who is quitting does not 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 NLP and hypnosis article index.

Part B is where people dip smokeless 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 people get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of smokeless tobacco in your hand, and the image of the smokeless tobacco in your hand causes an urge to dip?

There are effective and powerful hypnosis and NLP methods that can quickly erase those conditioned responses so that your unconscious mind will lose the cravings for chew, and the compulsion to dip smokeless tobacco. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject dipping.

IN SUMMARY

To summarize, when we utilize certain hypnotic and NLP techniques, it becomes very easy to quit dipping without weight gain or having to suffer from withdrawal. And many of these hypnotic methods like video self hypnosis and NLP don't even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the subconscious to use the same thought processes that the unconscious mind is using to create the dipping habit, to eliminate the mental addiction.