Do Cravings Ever Fully Go Away? ... The Honest Answer!

Do the cravings ever fully go away? Look, here's an honest answer.

It depends, right? It depends on the context.

It depends on you.

It depends on your situation.

It depends on, yeah, so many different factors.

It's always a question of time and intensity.

The habits take a long time to develop.

If you think about it, I was drinking for over 30 years, so that's a 30-year habit that you're trying to get rid of.

And...

Certain aspects of the habit will take a long time.

Certain aspects of the identity take a long time.

The habit is part of an overall identity.

It develops an overall identity as you're as you're moving through your life.

So you have to think about the craving as a protest.

And the loudest protests of the habit are usually very short lived.

I mean, they don't last long.

And the more you go through the habit, the weaker they become.

So Cravings are usually a response to denial, to the habit being deprived of its fuel, cut out of the loop.

And it's really a cry for attention, call for attention.

And every time you go into the habit, you're giving into that attention, you know, you're giving it the attention that it wants.

and it's not it's attention to bring you back to the habit and to keep you going along and fueling it you know it's there's no morality in it there's no um there's no thinking in it it's pure habit the system is there designed and whether or not you utilize that for good habits or bad habits i mean don't forget that we're living in a modern society where everything is in abundance so we have to fight against that and it's easy for that abundance to become habitual you know the consumption because it's there and we're wired to consume in that way so For this to work, you have to feel like you're being denied.