I do the fizzy drink one, and the unhealthy food one, and I try to get the same habitual thing going for tidying up as you have with your cats (although as a naturally messy person this hasn't yet really worked).
As to emotions more generally, you're right that they're difficult to resist and impossible to avoid - especially when drunk, which is annoyingly frequent for me. I tend to feel a lot of regret in the morning.
I find my job boring (emotion), and try to combat that with the imagined pleasure of having money, or what I'm going to reward myself with after work.
I actually can't think of many concrete examples, but that must just mean I've got used to living a cold, dead life of automation
