Make sure to have a few people for emotional / moral support. Ultimately, overcoming any addiction, or urge, comes down to having the willpower to resist it. All any sort of therapy, etc, does its make the intensity of the urge less or helps you to develop willpower. As Chazal put it, ain lecha davar haomed lefnei haratzon. (That is not to minimize in any way the severity and degree of difficulty and suffering of experiencing such an addiction/urge.) Emotional / moral support is a big, big booster for this.
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