The addiction to smokeless tobacco is easily as dangerous and debilitating as the addiction to smoking. In fact, most experts proclaim that it is even more insidious. It has been been glamourized by influential sports heroes who dip, and many have started their addiction as early as the age of 9. And by the time that many of these kids turn 18, they are overcome by throat and mouth 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.

The experts tell us that the physical addiction to Nicotine 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 3 distinct elements contained in a dipping addiction. Two of the components are mental, and only one part is physical.

Part A: YOU CHEW TOBACCO FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were a toddler and you got upset, your mother would put a nipple into your mouth to pacify you. You would get distracted, become calmer, and often go to sleep. That sequence of events was repeated hundreds 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 fully-grown, if you feel nervous 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, he could just ring the bell, and that would make the dogs salivate.

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

For example: If you chew tobacco when you drive your car, you will automatically get an urge to chew tobacco each time you drive your car.

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 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 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 movie 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 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 . . .

After having worked with several thousand people for tobacco addiction I guarantee you that the physical addiction to smokeless is the weakest part of the addiction to smokeless tobacco. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction. I believe that 90% 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 AND WHO WANTS TO QUIT.

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

Self-hypnosis will make it easy to quit dipping because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:

Part A is where dippers chew smokeless tobacco for relaxation and pleasure. It's your thoughts that create feelings of anxiety. Moreover, people constantly run mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it causes a feeling of anxiety.

We can use different hypnotic methods to re-program the unconscious to automatically take those stress creating mental movies, and automatically exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This creates relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the stress that causes the oral urges and compulsions for dipping.

Because of the elimination 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 repository.

Part B is where you 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 creates cravings for smokeless?

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

IN SUMMATION

To summarize, when we utilize certain NLP techniques, it can be very easy to quit chewing tobacco without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these methodologies like video self hypnosis and NLP don't even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on programming the unconscious mind to use the same thought processes that the unconscious mind is using to create the addiction to dipping smokeless tobacco, to eliminate the mental addiction.

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