Seems like semantics. I would personally reserve 'craving' for feelings of physical distress over desiring something. And that probably 'entertaining the thought' would frequently lead to craving, regardless of the activity. It's like looking where you want to go when you're driving... you tend to do the things you're contemplating, the longer you contemplate, the more likely you are to do it.
They used to say all the time on this forum 'play the tape forward.' Unfortunately that has a kind of self-reinforcing, self-fulfilling prophecy effect to it. It's better not to think about things you don't want to do, and if you need a reality check, just read the sad stories on this forum. I would say it's a lot more harmful to imagine yourself doing something you don't want to do, than it is to relate to another human being who has been through something you don't want to go through. Just that one step removed changes a lot.