The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love-Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits Audiobook (Free)

We all have been vulnerable to craving. Whether it’s a compulsion to constantly check social networking, binge eating, smoking cigarettes, excessive drinking, or any additional behaviors, we may discover ourselves uncontrollably repeating. Why are bad habits so hard to overcome? Is there an integral to conquering the urges we realize are unhealthy for all of us?

This book provides groundbreaking answers to the main questions about addiction. Dr. Judson Brewer, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who has analyzed the science of addictions for twenty years, reveals how we can utilize the very procedures that encourage addictive behaviors to be able to step out of them. He describes the mechanisms of habit and dependency formation, then explains how the practice of mindfulness can interrupt these practices.

Weaving together patient stories, his own experience with mindfulness practice, and current scientific findings from his own lab as well as others, Dr. Brewer offers a path for shifting beyond our cravings, reducing tension, and ultimately living a fuller lifestyle.