J.R.
I rarely get to watch any television but occasionally catch a few minutes of SuperNanny. If you have not seen the show this probably sounds crazy but sometimes she has some great ideas. Both of my little ones are into their thumbs and fingers so I don't know from experience if this will work or not. On one of the shows they were trying to break a 2 or 3 year old from her pacifier and they told the little girl that the "pacifier fairy" needed to collect some pacifiers for all of the new babies that did not have one. They had the little girl go around the house and the parents helped her to put all her pacifiers in a bag. Then they left the bag out for the fairy to pickup and the fairy left a toy in the bags place. It seemed to put the little girl in control and made her feel like a big girl helper. Good luck.