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Dipping Tobacco - How To Break The Addiction

By: Alan B. Densky, CH

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If you think smokeless tobacco is "up to snuff" and harmless, think again. Whatever you call it - spitting, dipping or chewing - it is every bit as hazardous as smoking. The majority of doctors believe more so because users are less aware of the dangers. Cancers of the mouth, lips, tongue and throat can quickly develop in people who use smokeless tobacco and leave debilitating and grotesque - even lethal - results.

In spite of the dangerous and painful effects of smokeless tobacco, quitting with traditional practices is extremely challenging. Many people think the reason lies in nicotine, a natural, super toxic element found in tobacco that is the plant's protection to prevent being eaten by insects. Measuring equal quantities, nicotine is more lethal than strychnine or snake venom, and three times deadlier than arsenic.

When dipping, the nicotine travels to the brain in under 10 seconds, where it produces a flood of dopamine, which brings about a relaxing feeling. Nicotine also promotes adrenaline production, so it both calms and energizes. However, the mental component of smokeless tobacco addiction is much stronger and creates far more obstacles to quitting smokeless tobacco than nicotine.

Many users had their first dip as young as nine years old. In just a few months, using smokeless tobacco becomes a fixed habit that yields reliable stress relief. In addition to the psychological conditioning, a social conditioning takes place, as images of many sports celebrities dipping also attract young users.

Understanding that there are individual emotional and physical reasons that play a role in a chewing habit makes it easier to create a plan to overcome smokeless tobacco addiction. Let's look at each component separately and look at effective methods to curb them.

Dipping for Relaxation and Pleasure: Just like using a pacifier to appease a fretful child, over time, people who use tobacco products start to associate putting an object in their mouths with satisfaction and relaxation. Curbing the effects of tobacco usage involves addressing all facets of the addiction.

Tobacco Dipping is a Conditioned Response: The classic example of a conditioned response relates to Pavlov and his dogs, which were trained to anticipate food - and thus began salivating - when a bell was rung. In accordance, if, for example, you always use chewing tobacco after each meal, you will consequently develop a craving to chew when you get finished eating.

In your mind, the images of pushing the plate away and laying down your napkin may be tied to using snuff, even if you are not conscious of it. Becoming aware of the situations or trigger images can help you beat cravings.

The Physical Addiction to Nicotine, But … : Despite the intense addiction, medical professionals maintain that the physical component of nicotine addiction is quelled after people quit using tobacco for seven days. It's my firm belief that nicotine addiction comprises a mere 10 percent of smokeless tobacco dependency. Therefore, 90 percent of the battle to quit dipping involves overcoming the mental and emotional components. So what does this mean for people like you who want to quit?

Quitting becomes much easier if you can:

A. Address and eliminate the tension or anxiety that compels you to use smokeless tobacco
B. Cancel the conditioned responses to chew in specific settings

But how does one conquer those issues?

Self-hypnosis offers a way to address the psychological and emotional components of the addiction while reducing struggles, which will eliminate the withdrawal symptoms. When we recognize how self-hypnosis works, it makes the decision to quit dipping much easier to accept.

When people dip for relaxation and pleasure, it's to quiet stressful feelings. People often play the same images over in their heads, like a bad movie, which leaves them feeling anxious and tense. Using self-hypnosis and different Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques, you retrain your brain to immediately and naturally prohibit stress-inducing images and replace them with calming images and mental movies. This generates satisfaction and relaxation while reducing cravings and oral compulsions. You elude the urge to put the chew in your mouth, and you won't get any urge to substitute food in its place. This controls weight gain.

To resist the conditioned response of chewing smokeless tobacco, the NLP Flash technique erases the associations of dipping during certain activities or situations. This means your subconscious will no longer trigger the craving. Further, the Flash can even be used to create a compulsion to reject smokeless tobacco.

Drawing on specific and strategic NLP procedures makes the decision to stop dipping smokeless tobacco very easy and painless by sidestepping withdrawal symptoms, cravings and weight gain. The process is dependent on training the unconscious mind to adhere to the same thought patterns that create your mental addiction to smokeless tobacco in the first place, to eliminate the habit.

Your brain is a powerful instrument—far more powerful than an addiction. With commitment and the aid of self-hypnosis and NLP, you can quit smokeless tobacco forever.

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Alan B. Densky, CH is a pioneer in the use of hypnotherapy stop smoking methods. He offers a potent Stop Dipping Tobacco program based on those same methods. Learn more at his Neuro-VISION self hypnosis site where you can watch Free hypnosis videos and articles.

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