Easy Ways To Break A Smokeless Habit With NLP

The addiction to smokeless tobacco is easily as dangerous and debilitating as the addiction to smoking cigarettes. In fact, many experts think that it is even more insidious. It has been glamorized by highly paid sports heroes who chew, and many have started their addiction as early as the age of 9. And by the time that many of these children turn 18, 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 tongue 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 individual elements contained in a chewing habit. 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 got restless, your mother would put a nipple into your mouth to distract you from that upset. You would get distracted, become calm, 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 an adult, if you feel upset, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - chewing 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 connect together chewing with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for smokeless tobacco and a compulsion to chew. This is called a conditioned response.

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

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 snapshot 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, her unconscious mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of the smokeless in the hand coming towards the mouth, and the dipper gets a craving for smokeless tobacco.

You may be unaware of the mental movie 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 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've worked face-to-face with several thousand people who are addicted to tobacco and I give you my guarantee that the physical addiction to smokeless tobacco is the weakest part of the addiction to smokeless. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction to tobacco. 90% of the 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 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 urges for chew when watching TV, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up smokeless without requiring willpower, and without experiencing withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.

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 smokeless tobacco for relaxation and pleasure. It's your thoughts that create feelings of anxiety. Moreover, people constantly play mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it brings on a feeling of stress.

We can use different NLP and Hypnosis methods to program the subconscious to instantly and automatically take those stress producing mental images, and quickly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This produces relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the stress that creates the oral cravings and compulsions for chewing.

Because of the elimination of tension, the person who is quitting does not experience the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the chewing tobacco. 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 article repository.

Part B is where you dip tobacco because dipping smokeless 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 an urge to chew smokeless tobacco?

There are efficient and powerful NLP and hypnosis technologies that can effortlessly extinguish those conditioned responses so that your subconscious will lose the cravings for dip, and the compulsion to chew smokeless tobacco. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject dipping smokeless tobacco.

IN SUMMARY

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 do not even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on programming the unconscious mind to use the same thought processes that the unconscious is using to create the addiction to dipping smokeless tobacco, to eliminate the mental addiction.