[Just_A_Guy]

While the process of repentance includes a number of essential components, it's very easy to boil it down to a series of steps that, when complete, give us a clean slate.

But when all is said and done, to repent is to change--to become a new person in Christ Jesus. Nothing more, nothing less. Just as it's possible to go through school without really learning anything, it's possible to mechanically go through the steps Loudmouth Mormon outlined above and still never really have applied the Atonement.

If you repeat a sin thinking you'll just "repent" later, then you never really repented in the first place.

This is not to say that true repentance from an addiction means you'll never experience relapse. But there should still be a fundamental shift in your overall attitude towards the behavior.