Seeking attention might be good to a level when done well. Craving for it might be a harmful element to toy with. It is the cause of much heartache many are passing through today.

When it becomes an addiction like it is to many people, quitting it is always too strong to do almost near impossible feat to achieve by those embroiled in it. So strong to many that it's almost a pull of some kind to those in its strangling hold.

So, it's not as if it suddenly developed a life of its own with hands and chains to shackle who wants to escape from its crushes even though at times, it certainly looks like it. But there is always one thing to bear in mind when you are sure you want to free yourself from its clutches. The idea is to remind yourself that as it floods over you like a tsunami, like tsunami also it will pass away if you hold on and don't give in.

No matter whatever it is you are craving for, be it: wanting to move up the ladder of politics, economy, alcohol, education, to belong on the elite list of your society, quest to be important in your society, to control others, to quit smoking, sex etc.

The idea is always to know that as they appear with such arresting waves, hold on and ride on that wave just for a few minutes, it will pass away the way it came. And when you have that strong ability, strong will to hold on for it to pass, each time you pass that minute's test you know you are closer to defeating what is plaguing you as far as you consider it a plague.

  There is no particular known magical-like tablet way to defeat craving. But here are a few well-known steps to enforce: 

try to learn from those suffering from the anomaly. All that filters are never gold as the saying goes. Many who found themselves running after that shiny material always to their chagrin found out after catching up with it that truly all that shimmers are not gold. The race is never worth it.

Try to keep clear of the things and areas that induce the craving in you. If it's friends, particular areas, food, movies, etc. Keep far away from that area.

If it's the urge to control others, tell yourself that what has a beginning always has an end. People don't always recall the good done them but the bad. Why create known and unknown enemies? control of such results isn't worth it.

If there is a replacement for that natural thing, try the way of the vegans. The same but not the same vegan way.

Don't try to play yourself like many trying to quit do by failing to keep a tiny commitment to yourself and keep manufacturing excuses for each mistake made.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.....
S"wami Sivananda "

Funny the truth in that Swami saying. Just like many things in the world, when you need so much, you can't find them when you turn your back on them to mind other things in your life, the same thing is beyond your reach and will appear on their own before you. One thing is that by them, you have seen the folly in running after those things early and don't need that much anymore.
them that was so, ier on them

Always be patient with most things and with time, they will lose their strangling hold on you. Get engaged with something else and you will know with time if it is necessity or vanity pushing your craving.