Chromium Picolinate
mineral ELEMENTAL CHROMIUM
cravings
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Chromium Picolinate is the elemental version of chromium and the kind that helps your body maintain sugar levels which may help prevent or lessen cravings. This is Chromium I use to squash cravings when I quit. I take chromium daily as needed for the first 10 days of quitting smoking and as needed after that. Out of everything I’ve tried to get through nicotine cravings (including celery sticks), chromium hands down seems to work the best for me. I used it for the first time last year when I quit, and I definitely felt like I was having fewer cravings.
I’ve read that chromium works for weight loss, but I don’t know that I buy it. As soon as I can stop taking a supplement I don’t need, I do, and chromium is one of the first ones to go but really helpful in getting through that first week. If you decide to use chromium for cravings, be sure to get the elemental form, often labeled Chromium Picolinate.
There is no specified upper daily limit for Chromium.
Chromium Picolinate may help with these withdrawal symptoms
Anxiety
Cravings (sugar levels)
Depression