There are three separate parts to a dipping habit. Two of the elements are emotional/mental, and one part is physical.
Part A: YOU DIP FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.
When you were a tot and you got restless, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to pacify you. You would get distracted, become mellower, 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 a grownup, if you feel nervous or tense, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - dip!
Part B: DIPPING IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE.
Remember Pavlov? Every time that he fed his dogs he rang a bell. After several repetitions, he would just ring the bell, and that would make the dogs salivate.
When you pair dipping tobacco with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for tobacco and a urge to dip tobacco. This is called a conditioned response.
For example: If you dip tobacco when you see a cup of coffee, you will automatically get an urge to dip tobacco each time you have a cup of coffee.
Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your subconscious: If a person dips smokeless tobacco and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a picture of the tobacco in the hand, and ties 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.
You may not be consciously aware 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 something draws your attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for smokeless.
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 can guarantee you that the physical addiction to smokeless is the weakest part of the addiction to smokeless. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction to smokeless. I believe that ninety percent of the habit are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B).
HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A PERSON WHO DIPS SMOKELESS AND WHO WANTS TO QUIT.
What this means is that when you eliminate the feeling of tension that causes you to chew smokeless for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and when you erase the conditioned response of feeling compulsions for smokeless tobacco when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up smokeless without requiring willpower, and without having to suffer from withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight.
Self-hypnosis will make it easy to stop chewing because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:
Part A is where people dip smokeless for relaxation and pleasure. It’s our thoughts that create feelings of stress. More specifically, people always play mental movies in their mind’s eye. If the movie is negative, it brings on a feeling of stress.
We can use different NLP and Hypnosis methods to re-program the unconscious mind to quickly and easily take those tension creating mental movies, and instantly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This instills relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the tension that creates the oral cravings and compulsions for dipping.
Because of the elimination of feelings of tension, the person who is quitting doesn’t feel the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the dip. So quitting without weight gain is possible.
Part B is where you chew because dipping 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 you get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of smokeless, and the image of the smokeless creates cravings for smokeless?
There are efficient and powerful hypnosis techniques that can quickly extinguish those conditioned responses so that your subconscious 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 chewing.
IN SUMMATION
To summarize, when we utilize certain hypnotic and NLP techniques, it becomes very easy to stop chewing without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these methodologies don’t even depend on post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on programming the subconscious mind to use the same thought processes that the subconscious is using to create the dipping habit, to eliminate the mental addiction.
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Alan B. Densky, CH created his practice in hypnosis and NLP in 1978. He has worked face-to-face with over 10,000 clients for hypnotic appetite suppression, hypnosis for weight loss, smoke cessation hypnosis, and other 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 opened his practice in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and hypnosis in 1978. He has worked one-on-one with over ten-thousand clients for stress related symptoms including weight loss hypnosis and appetite control, and quit smoking hypnosis. 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
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