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There are three distinct parts to a dipping addiction. 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 child and you got restless, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to pacify you. You would get distracted, become relaxed, and often go to sleep. That scenario 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 anxious or tense, 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 would ring a bell. After several repetitions, he would 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 smokeless tobacco and a compulsion to chew smokeless tobacco. This is called a conditioned response.

For example: If you chew smokeless tobacco while you watch a movie, you will automatically get an urge to chew smokeless tobacco each time you go to the movies.

Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your subconscious: If a person chews smokeless and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a snapshot of the smokeless tobacco in the hand, and associates it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person sees a cup of coffee, her unconscious mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of the chew, and the dipper gets a craving for smokeless tobacco.

You may not be consciously aware of the mental image of the smokeless 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 or something draws your attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for a dip.

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

After having worked with several thousand people for tobacco addiction I guarantee that the physical addiction is the weakest part of the addiction to smokeless tobacco. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction to smokeless. ninety percent of the smokeless 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 anxiety that pushes you to chew smokeless 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 break the addiction to smokeless without requiring willpower, and without suffering from withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.

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

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

We can use various hypnosis and NLP techniques to program the mind to instantly take those stress producing mental images, and instantly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This manufactures relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the stress that triggers the oral urges and compulsions for chewing tobacco.

Because of the elimination of tension, 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 people get cravings for smokeless 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 a person who dips 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 cravings for smokeless?

There are powerful NLP technologies that can effectively eliminate those conditioned responses so that a person's unconscious mind will lose the cravings for smokeless tobacco, and the compulsion to dip smokeless tobacco. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject chewing.

IN SUMMATION

To summarize, by using certain NLP techniques, it can be very easy to stop chewing without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these methodologies do not even depend on post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the unconscious mind to use the same thought processes that the unconscious mind is using to create the dipping habit, to eliminate the mental addiction.

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Alan B. Densky, CH started his professional practice in hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming in 1978. He has worked face-to-face with over ten-thousand clients for appetite, weight loss, smoke cessation, and stress related symptoms. He maintains a library of original hypnosis & NLP articles, and offers FREE hypnosis and NLP newsletters and MP3 downloads. He can be contacted through his website at www.Neuro-VISION.us

Alan B. Densky, CH created his professional practice in hypnosis and NLP in 1978. He has worked one-on-one with over 10,000 clients for appetite, weight loss, smoke cessation, and stress related symptoms. He maintains a library of original hypnosis & NLP articles, and offers FREE hypnosis and NLP newsletters and MP3 downloads. He can be contacted through his website at www.Neuro-VISION.us