Have you ever had some sort of addiction that you always wanted to deal with? Read on.

My friend said she had a problem, she was addicted to potato chips. She could not stop eating them, and it was affecting her health. Not only that, she knew it was a problem and had been unable to do anything about it, which made her doubt her ability to ever fix herself.

I tried some techniques I learned from Tony Robbins a long while back. I asked my friend about what she liked about chips, and which were her favorites. I was trying to determine the parameters that could affect her desire for chips, and understand what was going on.

I worked out what would make her desire for chips increase, and then focused on what might make the desire decrease. I had to find something that would make chips totally revolting. The solution that came to me was her cats. This lady loves cats you see. So I asked if she could imagine her chips covered in cat vomit. I know this sounds gross, but that is the intention. You have to make it vivid and distasteful in order to cure the addiction.

So from then on I kept bombarding her with mental images of chips covered in cat vomit. I made up stories of how the chip manufacturers actually use cat vomit because it tastes like sour cream and onion flavor (which was formerly her favorite flavor). I said how in the factories they have many cats in cages, throwing up, so that they collect the vomit for the flavor coating.

I learned you have to keep at it from different directions until it sticks (no pun intended). I kept making up gross stories involving cat vomit and chips, each more silly and vividly gross than the last.

The result is now my friend is no longer a slave to an addiction to potato chips, and has not ate any since.

Duncan

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Coffee addiction Written by 'Guest' on 2007-09-14 12:40:33 How about my coffee addiction - ok there is a coffee that is passed through the gut of a Sivett cat    It retails for quite a lot    Nope that don't work, I will just have to limit to my drinking the odd cup at work. That works        Graeme

puppies Written by 'Guest' on 2007-11-08 11:56:30 these puppies are so cute i want one. my mom wont let me. i have two dog cj,and kacay there alright       do you think u can get me one !!!!!!!!!!!!!      cameron

Written by 'Guest' on 2007-12-02 08:42:19 Eugh, I wish I could stop eating chips, as well. I can't stop. T_T And I wish someone would help me. :(

thanks for this article Written by 'Guest' on 2008-06-02 07:51:19 I just searched for some way to over come my chips addiction now, and here I find the best article. I am trying to get rid of this habit. i ll try ur method..

Written by 'Guest' on 2009-01-02 14:52:43 oh my good !! while i was reading i was thinking .. is he talking about me ??...   i just CANT stop eating chipss... i do it for 3 days with a huge sacrifice but thats iT... i start eating again...   it hasn't done anything to my health yet... but i'm starting to gain weight... and thats NOT good !!! but even if i feel bad about it... i cant stop... i no i shouldn't... its frustrating... =(...

Written by 'Guest' on 2009-01-23 12:55:43 That is a Paul McKenna technique. He had a TV series called I can make you thin.

Written by 'Guest' on 2009-02-17 00:51:52 this made me hungry for chips

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