accept the thought, don't Entertain it
sudden Substance-cravings will rise unbidden in a true addict’s mind like bubbles in a toddler’s bath. It’s a lifelong Disease: you can’t keep the thoughts from popping in there.
Context
The program's actual working technology, and the theme's answer to its own central problem: you can't stop the cravings — they rise unbidden, lifelong, like bubbles — so the discipline is not suppression but hospitality withheld. Let the thought come and go; just don't seat it, pour it a drink, and reminisce. It is the Abiding doctrine applied to the mind's own traffic, the refusal to Entertain the Substance-memory that "clamors" to be entertained.