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There are three individual factors to the addiction to chew. Two of the parts are emotional/mental, and one part is physical.

Part A: YOU DIP FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were a little baby and you got restless, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to calm you down. 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 a grownup, if you feel tense or nervous, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - chewing tobacco!

Part B: CHEWING IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE.

Remember Pavlov? Every time that he fed his dogs he would ring a bell. After several repetitions, he could just ring the bell, and the dogs would salivate.

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

For example: If you chew tobacco when you drive your car, you will automatically get an urge to chew 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 drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a picture of the smokeless tobacco in the hand, and ties it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person sees a cup of coffee, his subconscious mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of the smokeless, and the dipper gets a craving for smokeless.

You may be unaware of the mental picture of the smokeless, 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 one-on-one with several thousand people for tobacco addiction and I give you my guarantee that the physical addiction to smokeless 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. The strongest parts 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 AND WHO WANTS TO QUIT.

What this means is that when you eliminate the tension that causes you to put dip into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and when you erase the conditioned response of feeling a compulsion for dip when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can dipping tobacco without requiring willpower, and without experiencing withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.

Self-hypnosis will make it easy to give up tobacco because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:

Part A is where people chew smokeless for relaxation and pleasure. It's a person's thoughts that create feelings of anxiety. 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 unconscious mind to rapidly take those anxiety producing mental pictures, and automatically exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This manufactures relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the anxiety that triggers the oral urges and compulsions for chewing tobacco.

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

Part B is where people dip smokeless because chewing smokeless tobacco 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, and the image of the smokeless causes cravings for smokeless?

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

TO SUMMARIZE

In summation, by using certain NLP methods, it can be very easy to stop dipping tobacco without weight gain or having to suffer from withdrawal. 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 dipping smokeless, to eliminate the mental addiction.

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Alan B. Densky, CH opened his practice in hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming in 1978. He has worked one-on-one 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