Yeah, the thing is that it is really difficult to see yourself when you are in that situation.
From the outside it might be obvious, but from the inside it is surprisingly difficult. It's hard to get out of a bad habit that has grown over the years.
Thank you for pointing this out, this is what's been missing in all the people that's replying to this thread: empathy. Just because you think it's going to work doesn't mean that it's going to be effective in practice and it's going to be so unempathetic of us to tell what works and what not, addiction is complex and how to solve them is literally different for each individual even if there's some similarities to the possible solution, each person will recover differently.