Coaching practices for When a Craving Hits it Feels Like It'll Just Keep Building and Building Until I Cave I'm Sure it Can Only Get Worse Until I Give in and I've Never Actually Stayed with One Long Enough to Find Out If That's True
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- When a craving hits it feels like it’ll just keep building and building until I cave
- When a craving hits it feels like it’ll just keep climbing forever until I give in
- When the craving hits I get stuck in this endless head-argument
- The craving hits and it feels like it’ll never let up unless I give in
- Telling myself to resist a craving forever feels impossible and I give up before I start
Practices that may help
- Ride the wave to its peak and down
Watch the urge rise, crest, and fall without acting — like a wave you are surfing.
Urge Surfing: Riding the Wave of a Craving - Understand the anatomy of an urge
Learn that urges have a beginning, a peak, and an end — and that acting on or fighting them changes the arc.
Ride the Wave (Urge Management), Made Practical - Locate the urge in your body
Describe where and how the craving shows up physically instead of arguing with it in your head.
Urge Surfing: Riding the Wave of a Craving - Extinguish conditioned cravings through cue exposure without response
Repeatedly expose yourself to a craving cue without performing the associated behavior to weaken the conditioned urge.
Classical Conditioning and Habit Triggers - Buy time with a brief delay
Commit to waiting just ten minutes before acting on the urge.
Urge Surfing: Riding the Wave of a Craving - Surf the urge instead of fighting it
Urges are waves — they rise, peak, and fall without action if you observe rather than fight them.
The Willpower Instinct: What Self-Control Actually Is - Notice the urge as it arises
Catch the craving early, the moment it starts, before it becomes an automatic action.
Urge Surfing: Riding the Wave of a Craving - Meet the urge without judging yourself
Treat having an urge as normal and human, not as evidence of weakness.
Urge Surfing: Riding the Wave of a Craving - Build urge tolerance over time
Deliberately expose yourself to urges without acting on them — tolerance grows with repeated, successful riding.
Ride the Wave (Urge Management), Made Practical - Urge Surfing: Riding Out the Impulse Without Acting
Treat an urge to act impulsively like a wave — observe it rise and fall without being swept away.
The STOP Skill: A DBT Technique for Crisis Moments
Related concerns
- When Ride The Wave Understand Urge Anatomy
Watch the urge rise, crest, and fall without acting — like a wave you are surfing.
Ride the wave to its peak and down
- When Classical Conditioning Habits Extinction Of Cravings
Watch the urge rise, crest, and fall without acting — like a wave you are surfing.
- Cope With Cravings
Repeatedly expose yourself to a craving cue without performing the associated behavior to weaken the conditioned urge.
Extinguish conditioned cravings through cue exposure without response
- Craving Extinction
Repeatedly expose yourself to a craving cue without performing the associated behavior to weaken the conditioned urge.
- Mindfulness For Cravings
Describe where and how the craving shows up physically instead of arguing with it in your head.
Locate the urge in your body
- When Ride The Wave Build Urge Tolerance
Deliberately expose yourself to urges without acting on them — tolerance grows with repeated, successful riding.
Build urge tolerance over time
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