Dipping Tobacco - How To Kick The Habit

If you think smokeless tobacco is "up to snuff" and not dangerous, think again. Whatever it is called - spitting, dipping or chewing - it is every bit as dangerous as smoking. Many doctors think more so because users are not as aware of the threats. Cancers of the lips, mouth, tongue and throat can swiftly grow in people who use smokeless tobacco and leave debilitating and grotesque - even deadly - results.

Despite the dangerous and painful effects of smokeless tobacco, quitting with traditional techniques is extremely challenging. Many people think the reason lies in nicotine, a natural, super toxic substance found in tobacco that is the plant's defense against being eaten by insects. Looking at equal amounts, nicotine is more deadly than snake venom or strychnine, and three times deadlier than arsenic.

When dipping, the nicotine travels to the brain in less than 10 seconds, where it generates a flood of dopamine, which brings about a soothing sensation. Nicotine also stimulates adrenaline production, so it both energizes and calms. However, the mental element of smokeless tobacco addiction is much stronger and leads to many more challenges to quitting smokeless tobacco than nicotine.

Many users took their first dip as young as nine years old. In just a few months, using smokeless tobacco becomes a fixed habit that produces reliable stress relief. In addition to the psychological conditioning, a social conditioning transpires, as images of many athletes dipping also attract young users.

Understanding that there are individual emotional and physical issues that play a role in a chewing habit makes it easier to develop 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 restless toddler, over the course of time, people who use tobacco products start to associate putting an object in their mouths with relaxation and satisfaction. Curbing the effects of tobacco usage involves addressing all components of the addiction.

Dipping Tobacco 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 - after a bell was rung. In relation, if, for example, you always use chewing tobacco after each meal, you will consequently have a craving to chew when you are done eating.

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

The Physical Addiction to Nicotine, But … : In spite of the powerful addiction, doctors maintain that the physical part of nicotine addiction is quelled after people quit using tobacco for a week. It's my solid belief that nicotine addiction comprises a scant 10 percent of smokeless tobacco dependency. As such, 90 percent of the battle to quit dipping is overcoming the mental and emotional components. So what does this mean for people like you who wish to quit?

Quitting becomes much more feasible if you can:

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

But how does a person surmount those issues?

Self-hypnosis offers a way to address the emotional and psychological elements of the addiction while eliminating impediments, which will eliminate the withdrawal symptoms. When we appreciate how self-hypnosis works, it makes the decision to quit dipping much easier to assume.

When people dip for relaxation and pleasure, it is to calm feelings of stress. People often play the same images over in their minds, like a bad video, which leaves them feeling anxious and tense. With self-hypnosis and various Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques, you retrain your brain to immediately and automatically stop stress-inducing images and trade them with calming images and mental movies. This produces relaxation and satisfaction while eradicating cravings and oral compulsions. You elude the urge to put the chew in your mouth, and you will not get any urge to substitute food in its place. This quells weight gain.

To combat 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 compulsion. Further, the Flash can even be used to create a compulsion to deny smokeless tobacco.

Employing specific and strategic NLP techniques makes the decision to stop dipping very easy and painless by avoiding withdrawal symptoms, cravings and weight gain. The process depends on retraining the unconscious mind to adhere to the same thought patterns that produce your mental addiction to smokeless tobacco in the first place, to eliminate the addiction.

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

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Alan B. Densky, CH is a leader in the use of hypnosis stop smoking techniques. He now offers a powerful Stop Smokeless Tobacco program based on the same techniques. See more at his Neuro-VISION hypnosis site where you can watch Free hypnotherapy videos and articles.

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