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I don't believe in free will so willpower is fleeting. All I can hope for is that my neurophysiology has been influenced in some way such that I desire to be good more than the pain of breaking the old habits. I might well be in that state in weeks and months to come - I'm certainly there at the moment.

You don't need willpower to keep your hand out of a fire. I need envisage that fire and let it burn bright in my mind - that waste of life, killing myself with drugs, alcohol and cigarettes, aimlessly drifting, bored out of my mind.