The smokeless tobacco habit is easily as deadly as the addiction to smoking. In fact, many experts believe that it is even more insidious. Part of the problem is that influential sports heroes have glamorized the use of chew. Many have started their habit as early as the age of nine. And by the time that many of these youngsters turn eighteen, they are devastated by mouth and throat cancer, and many are 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. 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 distinct elements contained in a dipping habit. Two of the elements are mental, and one part is physical.

Part A: YOU DIP FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were a toddler and you got cranky, your mother would put a nipple into your mouth to pacify you. You would get distracted, become calmer, and often fall asleep. That sequence of events was repeated thousands 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 agitated, 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 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 chewing with any other activity, the other activity will trigger cravings for chewing tobacco and a urge to dip smokeless tobacco. This is called a conditioned response.

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

Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your unconscious: If a person dips smokeless and simultaneously drives a car, the mind takes a snapshot of the 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, his subconscious 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 smokeless tobacco.

You may be unaware of the mental picture of the smokeless 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 smokeless.

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

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

What this means is that as soon as you eliminate the feeling of tension that compels you to 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 watching TV, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up tobacco without the requirement of willpower, and without having to experience withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight.

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

Part A is where you chew smokeless tobacco for relaxation and pleasure. It's your thoughts that create feelings of stress. More to the point, people persistently watch mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it brings about a feeling of tension.

We can use some very powerful NLP or Hypnosis techniques to program the mind to quickly take those anxiety creating mental images, and automatically exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This creates relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the anxiety that creates the oral cravings and compulsions for chewing.

Because of the elimination of feelings of anxiety, 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.

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 & hypnosis article library.

Part B is where you get cravings for tobacco because dipping 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 powerful hypnosis technologies that can effectively extinguish those conditioned responses so that a person's unconscious 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 tobacco.

TO SUMMARIZE

In summation, by using certain hypnotic techniques, it can be very easy to stop dipping smokeless tobacco without weight gain or having to suffer from withdrawal. And many of these methods do not even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the subconscious to use the same thought processes that the unconscious mind is using to create the smokeless tobacco habit, to eliminate the mental addiction.