AndyK

Addiction in human life is very difficult to break because addiction takes over the person. If you are addicted to smoking, there is no god that can help you quit. You need will power. If your will is not strong, you are not going to be helped. Feel your addiction fully...Are you nervous? Are you stressed? Your clinging with it. Your addiction is just a cause.. Love beats all demons!!

tootsl1

Will power is the power of mind over matter. If someone believe that there is a god, and that their god will give them the strength to overcome addiction, And they overcome their addiction through that belief, I find it difficult to refute that.

hypochondriac

There is also the option that the correct information negates will power. I think using will power alone could be considered 'white knuckling'

Welcome to SR Andy x

visch1

Alcoholism is many fold and science is still trying to un ravel a fix for it except abstaining from it. Much of the time under it's influence we are arrogant, self centered to the extreme, mentally and emotionally immature, ignorant of the disease but know it all, defiant and some of us are unreachable because of the previous and more. It's a tough disease that's treatable by just not drinking, that I learned in AA. BE WELL

Hevyn

Pleased to meet you Andy - welcome to SR.

Mangoes

Unfortunately, Andy, that's a pretty simplistic view of addiction. Will power may work very well for something like, getting ones butt out of bed in the morning to go to the gym, but it does little to address the physiological changes that occur in the brains and bodies of those with substance addictions. In addition, those who are addicted to alcohol and drugs often have other psychological factors that, while they don't CAUSE the addiction, they often supply the root cause for the individual's need to suppress emotional responses (otherwise known as "self medication"). No amount of will power can fix a spirit that is already broken- they will simply move from one substance addiction to another, or onto another coping mechanism that fulfils the same need in their lives -shopping, gambling, sex.

I hope you spend some time on SR and learn about the faces of addiction. Some people can and do fully recover on will power alone. Some take medications. Some find a higher power, religion. Some find friends and a fellowship that fills a different void in their lives. Some undergo years of therapy. Some never recover. It's not as easy or simple as it may seem on the outset... But learn a little about the lived experiences here. It will open your eyes.