ChatGPT can interrupt cravings in early recovery when a therapist or sponsor isn't available. Text the AI about a late-night urge or craving while exercising, get a fast response that reframes it, and break the belief that cravings last forever.
Start low stakes. Start with a craving. Start with a trigger. Okay. I can't reach my therapist at 2:00 AM on a Thursday, but I can reach for ChatGPT. You know, that's, that's where this really becomes advantageous. When I'm running on the treadmill at the gym, not an ideal place to call a sponsor, but I can whip out ChatGPT and have a conversation with it real quick. So I look at it with cravings. And then also, So what I, what I'll do is I'll text, I'll tell ChatGPT, hey, I have a craving, here's what did it. And more often than not, it reframes that craving for me. So where I think, you know, how often in early recovery do we think that cravings last forever? You know, this is just the state of the world right now. Right. And it helps break me out of that mind thinking, you know, that this craving is not going to last forever. Here's how you can switch it.
