For all you Chocoholics out there, there's really a VERY simple process from neurolinguistic programming that kicks chocolate - or anything else (cigarettes, icecream whatever kind of "mouth" addiction) in the booty. No tapping unless you really want to. Follow this simple process up with a round of EFT tapping if you really want to hammer it into the wall. But for now, just do this pattern below.

First, a few definitions and an equipment list:

1. "Associated" means you see yourself inside your own body, doing or saying the thing listed. "Dissociated" means you're several feet to miles away watching yourself.

2. "Cues" refer to how you know it's time to do this behavior. For instance, you eat chocolate every time you think of working out, or every time you hear a certain song, or when you're depressed.

3. Anchor refers to setting a "bookmark" in your emotional state, so your mind can find its way back there. Don't worry about bookmarking negative states - you're only doing that so you can hone in on the negative state in order to uncreate that state.

4. Equipment: To establish and break anchors to your addictions, you'll need a pencil, and a spoon. It could easily be a pen and a feather, or an apple and a can of tunafish. What we want is for you to have two dissimilar objects to hold in your hands, to represent the anchors to each state. You'll also need a piece of chocolate or a cigarette or whatever your addictive substance is. Dove chocolates are particularly good for this as they are quite highly scented and come in both milk and dark chocolate for addicts at both ends of the spectrum.

 

From NLP Masters Steve & Connirae Andreas
The  "Godiva Chocolate Pattern" 

1.  Bring up something you absolutely adore and feel compelled to do. We're going to use "chocolate craving" for this example (though you can easily use anything else, such as cigarettes, "eat carbs" and so on). Elicit the cues that tell you to eat chocolate by remembering what happens just before you feel the compulsion to engage in the addictive behavior. What is going on inside you the minutes and seconds before you unwrap and eat a chocolate? Take note of these.

2. Now you're going to create an intensely associated picture of this addiction in order to get rid of it. Unwrap your sample chocolate morsel and smell it. Only inhale the chocolate scent. Feel what this does to your craving. Feel it fully.

Now, take a tiny lick of the chocolate. Again feel what this does to your craving.

Take it further by having a small bite and savor the feeling of the chocolate in your mouth. Savor fully and truly enjoy it. (for other cravings such as cigarettes, this might be to smell the cigarette, light the lighter and have a very small drag) Again, fully experience what this does to your craving for more.

3. Now rate your craving on a scale of 1 - 10, with 10 being the highest possible craving you could ever muster. The kind where you would lie, cheat or steal to get that thing. Make a writtten note of this number, you'll reference it later. Return to savoring the mouth feel, the creaminess, the taste and feeling on your tongue...

When you have this image, the sights and sounds and feeling of it firmly in mind then...

4. Establish anchor #1 by picking up the pencil

5. Break the addictive state by putting the pencil down, looking at your watch or clock on the wall and noting the time.

6. Create a disassociated picture of something you need to do but have trouble making yourself do - the bills, paperwork, vacuuming, meeting new neighbors if you're shy, etc. Remember that dissociated means you're observing yourself from far away. When you have this image, the sights and sounds and feeling of it firmly in mind, then...

7. Establish anchor #2 by picking up the spoon.

8. Break this state by putting the spoon down, looking at your watch or clock on the wall and noting the time.

9. Now, bring up the picture/feeling/sounds from Step One, those Cues that tell you "eat chocolate now". Pick up and hold the pencil. Now, FADE the image/sights/sounds of that and as you fade these, bring up picture #2, the DISSOCIATED image of doing the thing you have trouble making yourself do. Now, pick up and hold the spoon.

10. Hold both pencil and spoon at the same time. Here's a twist on the original that helps it stick: Without thinking about it, change the spoon and pencil back and forth from hand to hand a few times. This helps ping-pong the information between the right and left hemispheres of your brain. Now put both pencil and spoon down and note the time again.

11. Test yourself by picking up the chocolate morsel and smelling it. What is your craving rating on the 1 - 10 scale? Has it changed? Take a test lick of the chocolate. Again rate your craving. How much has it changed? Now take a bite. What has changed?

12. You might find that you still enjoy chocolate when you actually eat it, but when you smell and lick it, there's no overwhelming compulsion to eat it. If there is, simply go through this process again, choosing a different image for Step 5. Sometimes it takes a bit of adjustment to get the correct "meh, I don't care for this" image. 

Good luck with this, though you won't really need it. <wink> This process is really easy and once you get going, if for any reason the craving should ever re-surface (once you've pounded it down it shouldn't) you can simply plug and play again. Have fun!