"What you want to do is de-condition that response and replace it with another. Extinquish one habit and replace it with another..." Janie

Made me smile, Janie- on occasion I train dogs, especially to break a bad habit or two of theirs- and that's exactly what I do: Put something else in its place, i.e. if the dog is in the habit of going ape when it sees another dog, I give it a command like 'Sit' or 'lie' just to break the habitual action and give it something different to think about.

Or like when I had greyhounds that killed cats- there's no humane way to break a dog off the race track of chasing a fluffy li'l ole thang but you can teach it to COME when it first espies said critter.

Just maybe I can utilize that same strategy on myself...