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Break Your Smokeless Chewing Tobacco Habit With NLP

By: Alan B. Densky, CH

The smokeless tobacco addiction is every bit as deadly as a smoking addiction - possibly even more so. In fact, many experts proclaim that it is even more insidious. Part of the problem is that sports heroes have glamorized the use of dip. Many have started their addiction as early as the age of 9. And by the time that many of these kids turn eighteen, they are devastated 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 separate parts to the addiction to dip. Two of the components are emotional/mental, and one part is physical.

Part A: YOU CHEW FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were an infant and you became upset, your mother would put a bottle into your mouth to calm you down. You would get distracted, become mellower, and often fall asleep. That sequence of events 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 mature, if you feel anxious or tense, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - chewing tobacco!

Part B: DIPPING IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE.

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

When you connect dipping with any other activity, the other activity will trigger cravings for smokeless tobacco and a feeling of urgency to dip tobacco. This is called a conditioned response.

For example: If you dip tobacco when you play baseball, you will automatically get an urge to dip tobacco each time you play baseball.

Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your subconscious: If a person chews smokeless and simultaneously drives a car, the mind takes a snapshot of the dip in the hand, and links it to the image of the steering wheel, dashboard, or view out the windshield, etc.. Thereafter, every time the person drives the car, his unconscious mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of the smokeless in the hand coming towards the mouth, and the dipper gets a craving for chewing tobacco.

You may be unaware of the mental picture of the chewing tobacco, 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 something or someone 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 . . .

I've worked one-on-one with several thousand people for tobacco cessation and I can guarantee you that the physical addiction to tobacco is the weakest part of the addiction. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the habit. The strongest parts of the dipping 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 if you can eliminate the feeling of tension that causes you to chew smokeless for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and when you erase the conditioned response of feeling an urge for chew when watching TV, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can break the addiction to chew without needing willpower, and without suffering from withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight.

Hypnosis will make it easy to stop chewing because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:

Part A is where people chew smokeless for relaxation and pleasure. It's your thoughts that create stress. More specifically, people persistently run mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it manufactures a feeling of stress.

We can use different hypnotic methods to re-program the unconscious mind to instantly take those stress creating mental pictures, and quickly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This produces relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the stress that causes the oral compulsions for dipping.

Because of the elimination of feelings of tension, the person who is quitting does not feel the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the dip. So quitting without weight gain is possible.

Overcoming 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 chewing 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 tobacco in your hand, and the image of the smokeless tobacco in your hand creates an urge to chew?

There are effective and powerful hypnosis technologies that can effectively eliminate those conditioned responses so that a person's mind will lose the cravings for smokeless tobacco, and the compulsion to chew. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject dipping.

TO SUMMARIZE

In summary, by utilizing 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 methods don't even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on programming the mind to use the same mental processes that the mind is using to create the addiction to chewing tobacco, to eliminate the mental addiction.

Article Source: http://www.healthandwellnesscentral.com

Alan B. Densky, CH offers NLP & Hypnosis CDs to overcome chew. He helps clients with stress related symptoms including weight loss hypnosis, and quit smoking hypnosis. He maintains a library of NLP & hypnosis articles, and offers FREE hypnosis and NLP newsletters and MP3's.


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