| If you think smokeless tobacco is "up to snuff" | | | | help you conquer cravings. |
| and not dangerous, think again. Whatever you call | | | | The Physical Addiction to Nicotine, But ... : In spite |
| it - chewing, dipping or spitting - it is every bit as | | | | of the powerful addiction, medical professionals |
| hazardous as smoking. The majority of doctors | | | | maintain that the physical component of nicotine |
| think more so because people are less aware of | | | | addiction is quelled after people quit using tobacco |
| the threats. Cancers of the lips, tongue, mouth | | | | for a week. It's my firm belief that nicotine |
| and throat can rapidly develop in people who use | | | | addiction comprises a mere 10 percent of |
| smokeless tobacco and leave ugly - even deadly - | | | | smokeless tobacco dependency. As such, 90 |
| results. | | | | percent of the fight to quit dipping is overcoming |
| Regardless of the dangerous and painful effects | | | | the mental and emotional components. So what |
| of smokeless tobacco, quitting with traditional | | | | does this mean for people like you who wish to |
| practices remains very difficult. Many people think | | | | quit? |
| the reason lies in nicotine, a natural, super toxic | | | | Quitting becomes much easier if you can: |
| chemical found in tobacco that is the plant's guard | | | | A. Address and eliminate the anxiety and tension |
| to prevent being eaten by insects. Analyzing equal | | | | that compels you to use smokeless tobacco |
| quantities, nicotine is more deadly than strychnine | | | | B. Cancel the conditioned responses to chew in |
| or snake venom, and three times deadlier than | | | | specific situations |
| arsenic. | | | | But how does a person triumph over those |
| When dipping, the nicotine makes its way to the | | | | issues? |
| brain in under 10 seconds, where it generates a | | | | Self-hypnosis offers a way to tackle the |
| flood of dopamine, resulting in a soothing feeling. | | | | emotional and psychological elements of the |
| Nicotine also increases adrenaline production, so it | | | | addiction while eliminating struggles, which will |
| both calms and energizes. However, the emotional | | | | eliminate the withdrawal symptoms. When we |
| part of smokeless tobacco addiction is much | | | | recognize how self-hypnosis works, it makes the |
| stronger and creates far more obstacles to | | | | decision to quit dipping much easier to assume. |
| quitting smokeless tobacco than nicotine. | | | | When people dip for relaxation and pleasure, it is |
| Many users had their first chew as young as nine | | | | to quiet anxious feelings. People often play the |
| years old. In just a few months, using smokeless | | | | same images over in their heads, like a bad |
| tobacco becomes a fixed habit that yields reliable | | | | movie, which leaves them feeling very stressed. |
| stress relief. In addition to the psychological | | | | With self hypnosis and various Neuro-Linguistic |
| conditioning, a social conditioning transpires, as | | | | Programming (NLP) techniques, you retrain your |
| images of many sports celebrities dipping also | | | | brain to instantaneously and naturally stop |
| attract young users. | | | | stress-inducing images and replace them with |
| Understanding that there are individual emotional | | | | soothing images and mental movies. This |
| and physical factors that play a role in a chewing | | | | produces satisfaction and relaxation while |
| habit makes it easier to create a plan to | | | | eliminating cravings and oral compulsions. You |
| overcome smokeless tobacco addiction. Let's look | | | | shake the craving to put the chew in your mouth, |
| at each element separately and look at effective | | | | and you do not get any urge to substitute food in |
| methods to curb them. | | | | its place. This quells weight gain. |
| Dipping for Relaxation and Pleasure: Just like using | | | | In order to battle the conditioned response of |
| a pacifier to appease a restless toddler, over the | | | | dipping smokeless tobacco, the NLP Flash |
| course of time, people who use tobacco products | | | | technique removes the associations of dipping |
| begin to associate putting something in their | | | | during certain activities or situations. This means |
| mouths with satisfaction and relaxation. Curbing | | | | your subconscious won't trigger the craving. |
| the effects of tobacco usage means addressing | | | | Further, the Flash can even be used to create a |
| all aspects of the addiction. | | | | compulsion to reject smokeless tobacco. |
| Dipping Tobacco is a Conditioned Response: The | | | | Employing specific and strategic NLP techniques |
| classic case in point of a conditioned response | | | | makes the decision to quit chewing very easy |
| relates to Pavlov and his dogs, which were trained | | | | and painless by avoiding withdrawal symptoms, |
| to anticipate food - and thus began salivating - | | | | cravings and weight gain. The method involves |
| when a bell was rung. In accordance, if, for | | | | training the unconscious mind to abide by the |
| example, you always use chewing tobacco after | | | | same thought patterns that create your mental |
| each meal, you will consequently develop a desire | | | | addiction to smokeless tobacco in the first place, |
| to chew when you finish eating. | | | | to eliminate the addiction. |
| In your mind, the images of folding the napkin and | | | | Your brain is a powerful instrument-far more |
| pushing the play away may be tied to using snuff, | | | | powerful than an addiction. With commitment and |
| even if you are not conscious of it. Developing | | | | the aid of self-hypnosis and NLP, you can quit |
| awareness of the trigger images or situations can | | | | smokeless tobacco forever. |