Originally Posted by
Purplecatlover 
Addiction will lie to you, cheat, delude your thinking so you keep feeding it.
I believed I couldn't stop & each relapse reinforced that.
Exactly.
The whole point of this thread, I think, was the concept of powerlessness--whether or not it is useful.
For me, no. I spent many a year wanting some magic, "miracle" solution. Turns out, there wasn't one. There was only me, and my irrevocable, permanent decision to quit. I wasn't powerless: I just needed to come to the place where I understood that there was no other option but to quit forever.