Chapter 23 Just One Little Peek

This is the undoing of many using the willpower method. They'll go through three or four days and then have the odd taste to tide them over. They don't realise the devastating effect this has on their morale.

For most users, their first taste of junk food after quitting was not as good as real, nutritious food. The processed foods are bland and artificial, giving their conscious minds a boost, thinking, "Good, that wasn't entirely all that enjoyable. I'm losing the urge and am not that into the artificial stuff." In fact, the reverse is the case. Get it clear in your mind, enjoyment of taste wasn't the reason you quit junk food. If users were there for taste alone, they'd never eat more than one bite. The only reason why you needed junk food was feeding that little monster. Just think, after being starved for four days how precious that one taste must have been to it. Your conscious mind is unaware, but the fix your body received is communicated to your subconscious, and all your sound preparation will be undermined. There'll be a little voice at the back of your mind saying that, in spite of all logic, the junk food is precious and you want another bite.

That little taste has two damaging effects:

It keeps the little monster alive in your body.
Worse, it keeps the big monster alive in your mind. If you had the 'last taste', it'll be easier to have the next one.

Junk food is a mouse trap without cheese, only poison. Using willpower you have to convince yourself not to grab the cheese, but EasyPeasy allows you to see it's poison. You don't need to avoid it, you just don't go into it.

Above all, remember:

'Just one taste' is how people get into the addiction in the first place.