Taming the dopamine desires
The best way of resisting is not to linger over the temptation, but to decide to move away from it, as witnessed in the marshmallow tests.
Mindfulness meditation may also help. It's not that meditation makes the wanting go away - it's giving the more cognitive mind a way of distancing itself from the urgency of those wants.
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