The Fourth Stage of Craving

Research shows that not only do external cues influence our habits, but also internal moods, emotions, feelings, thoughts, beliefs. So it comes back to that internal mood states, emotions and feelings. The key for that craving stage is that it's really about the prediction, or meaning that you assign to the cue,. That determines whether you get a craving or not. And i think this is actually quite hard to do for breaking bad habits, which is re wiring the story in your brain for what a cue means. But in the long run, that is actually, i think, a very robust way to break a bad habit - learning to teach yourself that that cue means something new.