There are three separate elements contained in a dipping habit. Two of the elements are emotional/mental, and only one part is physical.

Part A: YOU DIP FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were a baby and you started crying, your mother would put a bottle into your mouth to calm you down. You would get distracted, become calm, and often go to sleep. That sequence of events was repeated hundreds 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 fully-grown, if you feel tense or anxious, 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 would ring a bell. After a few repetitions, he would just ring the bell, and that would trigger the dogs to salivate.

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

For example: If you chew while you watch a movie, you will automatically get an urge to chew each time you go to the movies.

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

You may be unaware of the mental image of the chewing tobacco, 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.

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

I've worked face-to-face with several thousand people for tobacco addiction and I guarantee that the physical addiction to smokeless is the weakest part of the habit. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the chewing habit. The strongest parts of the smokeless are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B).

HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A PERSON WHO DIPS SHOKELESS TOBACCO AND WHO WANTS TO QUIT.

What this means is that when you eliminate the tension that compels you to dip smokeless to create relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of feeling a compulsion for smokeless when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up tobacco without needing willpower, and without having to suffer from 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 dippers dip smokeless tobacco for relaxation and pleasure. It's a person's thoughts that create feelings of anxiety. Moreover, people constantly create mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it manufactures a feeling of anxiety.

We can use some very powerful NLP or Hypnosis techniques to train the mind to instantly and automatically take those anxiety creating mental pictures, and automatically exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This creates relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the anxiety that creates the oral compulsions and cravings for chewing.

Because of the elimination of feelings of anxiety, the person who is quitting doesn't experience the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the smokeless tobacco. So quitting without weight gain is possible.

Part B is where you 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 people get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of smokeless, and the image of the smokeless triggers an urge to chew smokeless tobacco?

There are effective and powerful hypnosis technologies that can quickly extinguish those conditioned responses so that a person's mind will lose the cravings for chewing tobacco, and the compulsion to chew smokeless tobacco. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject dipping.

IN SUMMATION

In summary, by utilizing certain hypnotic and NLP techniques, it can be very easy to quit dipping without weight gain or having to suffer from withdrawal. And many of these methodologies do not even depend on post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the subconscious to use the same thought processes that it is using to create the smokeless tobacco habit, to eliminate the mental addiction.

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Alan B. Densky, CH established his practice in hypnosis and NLP in 1978. He has worked face-to-face with over 10,000 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

Alan B. Densky, CH started his professional practice in NLP in 1978. He has worked one-on-one with over 10,000 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