People often times tend to have strengths in various areas and technically weaknesses in others. Some habits can be easily stopped while there is one or maybe a few that have just gotten stuck and refused to let go.
Addictions here are basically habits that a detrimental to one's physical social and emotional well being. They can range from lusts to intake of intoxicating substances. Many people have tried to stop but barely stay sober for a little time.
The question how ever should be, what is the source of addictions.
Basically, the sinful nature has become so enslaved by sin that only divine help can free a man from its grip. By believing and accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, a man is set free from the power of sin. That then gives the man the responsibility to walk in faith in that salvation daily and stay away from sin.
However, even some Christians who have been saved by the blood of the lamb can continue being enslaved by one addiction or the other. Pornography and sexual sins are a typical example. The Bible says in Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,
"The sin that so easily entangles" in this passage sounds like an addiction that even some Christians might struggle with.
Although a Christian has been able to stay away from every other sin, one entangles, causes so much pain and slows down spiritual growth.
2Cor10:4-5; The weapons we fight with are not weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
That addiction has invariably become a stronghold and from the passage above, the way to handle strongholds is via spiritual warfare with faith in Christ, our prayers and fasting and praise to God.
The impure spirit causing the addiction however only answers to those already in Christ. Luke 11:24; When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, "i will return to the house i left". When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. Hence for the demolition of a stronghold to be effective and permanent, there must be no vacuum in the life of the person involved but rather Christ must live in that life. This doesn't mean that a Christian can necessarily be demon possessed, but one who doesn't know their Kingdom rights can be under the influence of demons.
So wanna break that addiction? Accept Christ Jesus as Lord over one's life, walk in the newness of that salvation everyday and bind every influence of the stronghold leading to addictions by the power in the Blood of Jesus!