I wonder if this strategy would work with other sorts of abstract problems. The consequences of addiction seem abstract, until they're not, for example. Maybe e

I wonder if this strategy would work with other sorts of abstract problems. The consequences of addiction seem abstract, until they're not, for example. Maybe envision yourself taking actual life threatening poison everytime you think about taking your drug of choice? It might work if you could really make it believable to your subconscious. Edit: I know some thin people who act like any amount of junk food will destroy they're lives, so it does work for that, though I'm not sure the tradeoff is always worth it...