Effort Isn't Your Bottleneck

White-knuckling works, up to a point. It is how a lot of people get through the early period of stopping a behavior. The effort is real. The will is real.

What it doesn't do is update anything. The system that generated the behavior is still running exactly as it was. The behavior is being contained, not changed.

The bottleneck was never effort. It was what the effort was aimed at.