Yes, the rubberband and marker trick is really good. Smacking a rubberband against your wrist a couple times gives you the burning sensation cutting does, without leaving you bloody and cut open. The marker trick is more for the actual ACTION of just SIing... When you get the urge to cut a lot of times it's the urge to just slide a blade across your wrist, not to feel pain. So when you get those kind of urges, you can rub a washoff marker across your arm. Most like using the color red.