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How to stop lying to oneself?

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I'm all for prayer to help, but in addition to prayer we need to recognize that addiction is a medical issue and as such use medical treatments, techniques, methods etc to help us. Studies shows conclusively that trying to quit via cold turkey and white knuckling it is the least effective way.
 
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I was only thinking on this subject myself within the last hour or so. I had thought about writing things down. So there is an action tied to it and a physical reminder. Maybe an elastic band on the wrist too like they use in CBT.

Whether it would work is another thing.
 
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