You Can Break A Addiction To Chewing Tobacco With Hypnosis

The smokeless tobacco addiction is every bit as dangerous and devastating as a cigarette addiction - possibly even more so. In fact, many believe that it is even more insidious. It has been been glamourized by sports professionals. Many people who chew smokeless tobacco started as early as 9 years of age! And by the time that many of these youngsters turn 18, they are devastated by throat and mouth 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.

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 3 separate components to the addiction to dip. Two of the components are emotional/mental, and one part is physical.

Part A: YOU DIP FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were a little baby and you got restless, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to calm you down. You would get distracted, become more peaceful, and often go to sleep. That scenario 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 upset, 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 several repetitions, he would just ring the bell, and the dogs would salivate.

When you link chewing with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for smokeless tobacco and a compulsion to chew smokeless tobacco.  This is called a conditioned response.

For example: If you chew smokeless tobacco when you see someone else chewing tobacco, you will automatically get an urge to chew smokeless tobacco each time you see someone else chewing tobacco.

Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your unconscious: If a person dips tobacco and simultaneously drives a car, the mind takes a picture of the smokeless tobacco in the hand, and connects it to the image of the steering wheel, dashboard, or view out the windshield, etc.. Thereafter, every time the person drives the car, the unconscious 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 smokeless tobacco.

You may not be consciously aware of the mental image of the smokeless tobacco, because it may only be at the unconscious level of mind. Just as you are not consciously aware 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 smokeless tobacco.

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

I've worked face-to-face with several thousand people for tobacco cessation and I guarantee 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 addiction to smokeless. The strongest parts of the smokeless are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B). 

HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A PERSON WHO CHEWS SMOKELESS TOBACCO AND WHO WANTS TO QUIT.

What this means is that when you eliminate the anxiety that pushes you to dip smokeless to create relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and when you erase the conditioned response of feeling cravings for chew when watching TV, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can break the addiction to chew without requiring willpower, and without having to experience withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight.

Hypnosis will make it easy to give up tobacco because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:

Part A is where dippers dip smokeless for relaxation and pleasure. It's our thoughts that create anxiety. More specifically, people invariably run mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it manufactures a feeling of tension.

We can use different NLP techniques to program the unconscious to rapidly take those stress creating mental pictures and movies, and instantly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This manufactures relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the stress that creates the oral cravings and compulsions for chewing tobacco.

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

Stopping 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 library.

Part B is where you chew smokeless tobacco because chewing 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 a person who dips gets 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 triggers an urge to dip?

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

TO SUMMARIZE

To summarize, by using certain NLP methods, it becomes very easy to stop chewing without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these hypnotic methods like video self hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming do not even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on programming the unconscious mind to use the same thought processes that the mind is using to create the dipping smokeless tobacco habit, to eliminate the mental addiction.