The Desire Addictive behavior is like a train running out of control, and desire is the engine that drives it. While a runaway train can be brought under control by manipulating the rails it is running on, the train is never really stopped until the engine has stopped. There is a difference between ending a behavior and ending the desire that drives it. The Cause Brain chemistry affects emotions and emotions affect brain chemistry. When repeated exposure to a person, place, thing, or behavior triggers identical, or similar, emotional response, the subconscious mind programs a pattern of automatic bio-chemical responses to these triggers.
Biological needs are extremely difficult to deny or ignore.
It is a battle. Won or lost it is a battle with casualties. Suppression of desire requires tremendous expenditures of energy. Henry David Thoreau. Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.