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Quit Your Chewing Tobacco Addiction With Hypnosis |
Written by Alan B. Densky, CH
Thursday, 17 May 2007
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The smokeless tobacco habit is easily as dangerous as the addiction to smoking. In fact, many proclaim that it is even more insidious. Part of the problem is that sports heroes have glamorized the use of chew. 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 may be 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. 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 components to a dipping addiction. Two of the components are emotional/mental, and only one part is physical. Part A: YOU DIP FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE. When you were a baby and you became cranky, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to pacify you. You would get distracted, become more peaceful, and often fall asleep. 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 a grownup, if you feel tense or anxious, 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 a few repetitions, all he had to do was to ring the bell, and that would make the dogs salivate. When you associate chewing with any other action, the other action 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 while 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 smokeless tobacco and simultaneously drives a car, the mind takes a picture of the tobacco in the hand, and associates it to the image of the steering wheel, dashboard, or view out the windshield, etc.. Thereafter, every time the person drives the car, the subconscious 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 smokeless. You may be unaware of the mental movie of the smokeless, 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 or someone 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 have had the experience of working with several thousand people who are addicted to tobacco and I guarantee you that the physical addiction is the weakest part of the addiction. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction. I believe that ninety percent of the smokeless tobacco addiction 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 after you have eliminated the feeling of tension that makes you put dip into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of feeling cravings for smokeless tobacco when watching TV, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can quit dipping without needing willpower, and without experiencing withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain. 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 dippers dip smokeless for relaxation and pleasure. It's your thoughts that create feelings of stress. Moreover, people invariably watch mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it causes a feeling of anxiety. We can use some very powerful NLP or Hypnosis techniques to train the unconscious to quickly take those anxiety creating mental pictures, and quickly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This manufactures relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the anxiety that creates the oral compulsions for dipping. Because of the elimination of anxiety, the person who is quitting doesn't experience the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the chew. 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 article library. Part B is where people chew smokeless 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 you get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of smokeless, and the image of the smokeless creates cravings for smokeless? There are powerful and effective NLP methods that can effortlessly extinguish those conditioned responses so that your subconscious will lose the cravings for chewing tobacco, and the compulsion to chew. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject dipping smokeless tobacco. TO SUMMARIZE In summation, by utilizing certain hypnotic techniques, it can be very easy to quit dipping smokeless tobacco without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these methodologies like video self hypnosis and NLP do not even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on programming the subconscious mind to use the same thought processes that the subconscious is using to create the dipping tobacco habit, to eliminate the mental addiction. Article Source: http://www.ArticleBlast.com |
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Alan B. Densky, CH offers Hypnosis CDs to quit 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 & MP3s.
Alan B. Densky, CH offers Hypnosis CDs to quit 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 & MP3s.You are welcome to publish this article free of charge on your website, newsletter, or e-zine, provided:
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