here's some videos that can help you see how it effects your brain - there are a few parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKDFsLi2oBk
best thing to recognize is that you're not dependent on it but rather on the opiates and dopamine surges - and you can - through practice - rewire your brain's circuitry to be stimulated by giving charity, seeing a smile on a needy person's face, knowing that you are pleasing your creator etc.
it's actually true, those nerves connect and become strong through continuous stimulation in a certain direction, just like an intelligent computer software which allocates cpu power and ram space to programs you use most.
the brain is full of electricity - (which is why an eeg machine can read brain functions) if you realize that it's crap, and that certain evil trash are using their influence in the media to push decadence on society, and the adverse effects it has on society and family, that young girls in college or uni are approached by perverts in shopping malls with offers of money for modelling, then leave study and go to work in strip clubs for money, then end up either as prost***tes on film - or on the streets trying to solicit pervs when their looks begin to fade, you develop a repulsion to it, your brain is rewired, and you develop it in a different direction. if you relapse, it becomes stronger and is more difficult to break, the longer you stay away from it, the weaker it gets, ("time heals")
17. Allah accepts the repentance of those who do evil in ignorance and repent soon afterwards; to them will Allah turn in mercy: For Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom.
18. Of no effect is the repentance of those who continue to do evil, until death faces one of them, and he says, "Now have I repented indeed;" nor of those who die rejecting Faith: for them have We prepared a punishment most grievous.
Quran 4:17
it seems to be a code written into us from the beginning - if we choose the wrong path - we find it more and more difficult to come back
137. Those who believe, then reject faith, then believe (again) and (again) reject faith, and go on increasing in denial,- Allah will not forgive them nor guide them to the path.
138. To the Hypocrites give the glad tidings that there is for them (but) a grievous penalty;-
139. Yea, to those who take for friends unbelievers rather than believers: is it honour they seek among them? Nay,- all honour is with Allah.
Quran 4:137-139
though triggers can come in all forms - you have to try to recognize those triggers and understand how they attempt to manipulate you - but triggers can be random and unpredictable.
i myself was on a class a substance a while back and realized this through a period of 4 years.
i agree that one should acknowledge that the deed is a problem, but if they convince themselves that they are dependent on it and it is they themselves that have that problem, they tend to turn to that stimulation when they are down, as pushing against it only magnifies the issue in the brain, making it take up a huge amount of disk space. not a good method,
here's an example from hitler's propaganda minister - these guys spent years discovering how the brain works:
But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention.
It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.
Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.
Actually from "War Propaganda", in volume 1, chapter 6 of Mein Kampf (1925), by Adolf Hitler
(multiple variations) If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. // If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. // If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. // If you repeat a lie long enough, it becomes truth. // If you repeat a lie many times, people are bound to start believing it.
after that - people's brains became re-wired, the word "muslim" took on a different meaning and mental image.
from their neighbour's face before 9/11 - to a man in a covered face with an rpg would flash in front of their eyes .
the fact is that
ya gotta develop a repulsion to it - and just like they do with the propaganda - keep remembering the bad after-effects, the fact that it's only in the mind, and the rewards you miss out on, and the displeasure or wrath of your creator
- yet - it's gotta be between fear and hope.
too much hope - you can become heedless
too much fear - you can lose motivation to try.
hope i've been of some help,
peace