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The smokeless tobacco addiction is every bit as dangerous and devastating as an addiction to cigarettes - maybe even more so. It has been glamourized by sports heroes who dip or chew, and many have started their addiction as early as the age of 9. Many people who chew tobacco started as early as nine years of age! By the time many of these children turn eighteen, they are dying from thorat and mouth cancers. 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. 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 individual parts to a dipping addiction. Two of the parts are mental, and one part is physical. Part A: YOU CHEW FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE. When you were a little baby and you got upset, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to pacify you. You would get distracted, become calmer, 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 mature, if you feel upset, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - dip! Part B: DIPPING IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE. Remember Pavlov? Every time that he fed his dogs he rang a bell. After a few repetitions, he could just ring the bell, and that would trigger the dogs to salivate. When you connect together dipping with any other activity, the other activity will trigger cravings for tobacco and a urge to dip. This is called a conditioned response. For example: If you dip when you drive your car, you will automatically get an urge to dip each time you drive your car. Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your unconscious: If a person dips smokeless tobacco and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a picture of the tobacco in the hand, and ties it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person has a cup of coffee, his subconscious mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of the chew, 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 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 have had the experience of working with several thousand people for tobacco cessation and I give you my personal guarantee that the physical addiction to tobacco is the weakest part of the addiction to smokeless. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction. ninety percent of the 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 tension that makes you put dip into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and when you erase the conditioned response of feeling an urge for smokeless when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can quit chewing without needing willpower, and without experiencing 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 for relaxation and pleasure. It's our thoughts that create anxiety. More specifically, people persistently watch mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it manufactures a feeling of anxiety. We can use various hypnosis and NLP techniques to program the subconscious to automatically take those anxiety creating mental images, and quickly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This instills relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the anxiety that creates the oral urges and compulsions for chewing tobacco. Because of the elimination of stress, the person who is quitting doesn't experience the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the chewing tobacco. So quitting without weight gain is possible. Part B is where you dip smokeless 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 a person who chews 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 creates an urge to chew tobacco? There are stop smokeless hypnosis, and quit smokeless NLP techniques that can effectively erase those conditioned responses so that your subconscious mind will lose the cravings for chewing tobacco, and the compulsion to chew smokeless. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject dipping smokeless. TO SUMMARIZE To summarize, when we use certain NLP techniques, it becomes very easy to stop dipping smokeless without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these hypnotic techniques don't even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on programming the subconscious to use the same mental processes that it is using to create the addiction to chewing tobacco, to eliminate the mental addiction.
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Alan B. Densky, CH created his professional practice of NLP and hypnosis in 1978. He is the inventor of the Video Hypnosis technology, which received a United States Patent for its effectiveness. He offers NLP CDs that can effectively erase your cravings for chewing tobacco, and the compulsion to chew smokeless. He maintains an original hypnosis & NLP article library, and FREE newsletters and MP3 downloads. Contact him through his Neuro-VISION Video Hypnosis website.
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