Addiction
Hello I just need some personal advice.ive had Religious OCD as long as I remember but I've been fighting my toughest battle with scrupolosity for the past year or so. Alongside that I've been dealing with addiction. I've quit Marijuana and alcohol but cigars and pornography are still things that I struggle with personally. Pornography I've actually been getting a lot better. Ive havent abstained so long since I was 8 years old but my nicotine (cigar) use has been pretty bad. I find it quite difficult to quit both of those things simultaneously. Coupled with my scrupolisity when I try to quit both I've found it extremely difficult to the point I can only walk around in circles in my room praying in anguish getting nothing done. I am seeking professional help but I need to wait due to insurance stuff and I am just entering the lutheran tradition so I don't have a pastor that I can confide with. My former church was more of a john macarthury Baptist church which did a number on me. I don't trust the information that they give me anymore and I only really have you guys over at reddit. In my head im thinking that I can just gradually quit cigars and that it's a process but the verse that keeps coming into my head is when Paul says "God will not give you a temptation that you won't be able to handle". Am I making excuses or is this just my scrupolosity fairing up?
Thank you in advance I apologize for the atrocious Grammer