The smokeless tobacco addiction is every bit as devastating and dangerous as a cigarette addiction - possibly even more so. In fact, many experts proclaim that it is even more insidious. It has been been glamourized by influential sports heroes who chew, and many have started their habit as early as the age of nine. 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.

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 separate factors to a dipping habit. Two of the parts are mental, and only one part is physical.

Part A: YOU CHEW TOBACCO FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were a child and you got upset, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to distract you from that upset. You would get distracted, become calmer, and often go to sleep. That sequence of events was repeated dozens 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 anxious or tense, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - chewing tobacco!

Part B: DIPPING TOBACCO IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE.

Remember Pavlov? He rang a bell every time that he fed his dogs. After a few repetitions, he would just ring the bell, and that would make the dogs salivate.

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

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

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

You may be unaware of the mental picture of the chewing tobacco, because it may only be at the subconscious level of mind. Just as you are not consciously aware of what you are seeing through your peripheral vision until someone draws your attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for smokeless tobacco.

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

I've worked with several thousand people for tobacco addiction and I can guarantee you that the physical addiction to smokeless tobacco is the weakest part of the addiction. 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 DIPS SMOKELESS AND WHO WANTS TO QUIT.

What this means is that when you eliminate the tension that pushes you to put dip into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of feeling compulsions for smokeless when watching television, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up tobacco without the requirement of willpower, and without experiencing withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.

Hypnosis will make it easy to break the addiction to smokeless because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:

Part A is where you dip smokeless for relaxation and pleasure. It's a person's thoughts that create feelings of anxiety. More exactly, people constantly run mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it manufactures a feeling of tension.

We can use various hypnotic methods to train the subconscious mind to quickly and easily take those tension creating mental pictures and movies, and instantly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This produces relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the tension that causes the oral cravings for chewing.

Because of the elimination of stress, the person who is quitting does not feel the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the chew. So quitting without weight gain is possible.

Quitting the addiction to smokeless 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 & NLP article repository.

Part B is where you chew 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 triggers an urge to chew tobacco?

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

TO SUMMARIZE

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