Part of the problem is that sports heroes have glamorized the use of dip or chew. Many people who chew tobacco started as early as nine years of age! By the time many of these children turn eighteen, they are dying from thorat and mouth cancers.

There is nothing quite as ugly as a face ravaged by tumors or cancer, except maybe how the victim's face looks after having surgery to amputate the jawbone, lips, or tongue. Unfortunately, in most cases the surgical massacre of the victim's face really doesn't matter, because they are dead within a year anyway.

Doctors tell us that the physical part of the Nicotine addiction is broken after abstaining for seven days. But the psychological part of the addiction is far stronger and may take a much longer time and a lot more effort to overcome, which makes it very difficult to give up smokeless tobacco.

There are three separate parts to a chewing addiction. Two of the elements are mental, and one part is physical.

Part A: YOU CHEW FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were a tot and you became upset, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to calm you down. You would get distracted, become calm, 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 - dip!

Part B: CHEWING TOBACCO IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE.

Remember Pavlov? He rang a bell every time that he fed his dogs. After a few repetitions, all he had to do was to ring the bell, and the dogs would salivate.

When you connect chewing tobacco with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for tobacco and a feeling of urgency to chew tobacco. This is called a conditioned response.

For example: If you chew tobacco when you see a cup of coffee, you will automatically get an urge to chew tobacco each time you have a cup of coffee.

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

You may be unaware of the mental image of the smokeless, because it may only be at the subconscious level of mind. Just as you are unaware 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 chewing tobacco.

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

I have had the experience of working with several thousand people who are addicted to tobacco and I give you my personal guarantee that the physical addiction to tobacco is the weakest part of the smokeless habit. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction to tobacco. 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 when you eliminate the anxiety that causes you to put dip into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of feeling a craving for dip when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can quit chewing without requiring willpower, and without experiencing withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.

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

Part A is where you chew smokeless tobacco for relaxation and pleasure. It's a person's thoughts that create feelings of anxiety. More specifically, people persistently play mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it creates a feeling of stress.

We can use various hypnosis and NLP techniques to re-program the subconscious mind to automatically take those tension producing mental images, and quickly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This manufactures relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the tension that triggers the oral urges and compulsions for dipping.

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 chewing tobacco. So quitting without weight gain is possible.

Part B is where people dip tobacco 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 people get 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 causes an urge to chew tobacco?

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

TO SUMMARIZE

To summarize, by using certain NLP methods, it becomes very easy to stop chewing tobacco without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these techniques don't even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on programming the unconscious mind to use the same thought processes that it is using to create the addiction to chewing tobacco, to eliminate the mental addiction.