If you think smokeless tobacco is "up to snuff" and safe, think again. Whatever you call it - dipping, chewing or spitting - it is every bit as hazardous as smoking. Many medical professionals believe more so because people are not as aware of the dangers. Cancers of the mouth, lips, tongue and throat can swiftly progress in people who use smokeless tobacco and leave grotesque and debilitating - even deadly - results.
Even with the painful and dangerous consequences of smokeless tobacco, quitting with traditional ways remains extremely difficult. A lot of people think the reason lies in nicotine, a natural, super toxic substance found in tobacco that is the plant's protection against being eaten by bugs. Comparing equal quantities, nicotine is more deadly than strychnine or snake venom, and three times more lethal than arsenic.
When dipping, the nicotine makes its way to the brain in less than 10 seconds, where it produces a flood of dopamine, resulting in a relaxing feeling. Nicotine also promotes adrenaline production, so it both calms and energizes. However, the mental part of smokeless tobacco addiction is much stronger and leads to many more obstacles to quitting smokeless tobacco than nicotine.
A lot of users had their first dip as early as nine years old. In as little as a few months, using smokeless tobacco becomes a fixed habit that yields reliable stress relief. In addition to the psychological conditioning, a social conditioning transpires, as images of many sports celebrities dipping also attract young users.
Understanding that there are individual emotional and physical factors that contribute to a chewing habit makes it easier to develop a plan to prevail smokeless tobacco addiction. Let's examine each component separately and look at effective methods to curb them.
Dipping for Relaxation and Pleasure: Just like using a pacifier to soothe an anxious infant, over time, people who use tobacco products begin to associate putting something in their mouths with satisfaction and relaxation. Curbing the effects of tobacco usage involves addressing all components of the addiction.
Tobacco Dipping is a Conditioned Response: The classic case in point 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 develop a craving to chew when you finish eating.
In your mind, the images of pushing the plate away and laying down your napkin may be tied to using snuff, even if you are not conscious of it. Developing awareness of the situations or trigger images can help you beat cravings.
The Physical Addiction to Nicotine, But : Despite the powerful addiction, doctors maintain that the physical component of nicotine addiction is broken after people quit using tobacco for a week. It's my strong belief that nicotine addiction comprises a scant 10 percent of smokeless tobacco dependency. As such, 90 percent of the fight to quit dipping is overcoming the emotional and mental components. So what does this mean for people like you who want to quit?
Quitting becomes much easier if you can:
A. Address and remove the tension or anxiety that compels you to use smokeless tobacco
B. Cancel the conditioned responses to chew in specific settings
But how does one defeat those issues?
Self-hypnosis offers a way to deal with the psychological and emotional parts of the addiction while eliminating difficulties, which will eliminate the symptoms of withdrawal. When we comprehend how self-hypnosis works, it makes the decision to quit dipping much easier to carry out.
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 film, which leaves them feeling anxious and tense. With
self-hypnosis and different Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques, you retrain your brain to immediately and automatically stop stress-inducing images and replace them with soothing ideas and mental movies. This generates satisfaction and relaxation while reducing cravings and oral compulsions. You shake the impulse to put the chew in your mouth, and you don't get any desire to substitute food in its place. This quells weight gain.
To combat the conditioned response of
chewing smokeless tobacco, the NLP Flash technique removes the associations of dipping during certain activities or situations. This means your subconscious will no longer trigger the craving. Further, the Flash can even be used to create a compulsion to deny smokeless tobacco.
Drawing on specific and strategic NLP methods makes the decision to
quit dipping smokeless tobacco effortless and painless by circumventing symptoms of withdrawal, cravings and weight gain. The method involves retraining the unconscious mind to abide by 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 instrumentfar more powerful than an addiction. With steadfastness and the help of self-hypnosis and NLP, you can quit smokeless tobacco forever.
