Psychology - Prisoners dilemma

You can research the "prisoners dilemma" online - it is about 2 catched criminals cooperating or betraying each other.

If both cooperate with each other and stay silent about further crimes, they will both serve less time in prison. But if one stays silent but the other one reveals the other ones crimes and accuses him, the betrayed silent one is the sucker, while the accuser may serve less time in prison.

What does it have to do with (porn) addiction?

wiki:
In addiction research / behavioral economics, George Ainslie points out[28] that addiction can be cast as an intertemporal PD problem between the present and future selves of the addict. In this case, defecting means relapsing, and it is easy to see that not defecting both today and in the future is by far the best outcome. The case where one abstains today but relapses in the future is the worst outcome – in some sense the discipline and self-sacrifice involved in abstaining today have been "wasted" because the future relapse means that the addict is right back where he started and will have to start over (which is quite demoralizing, and makes starting over more difficult). Relapsing today and tomorrow is a slightly "better" outcome, because while the addict is still addicted, they haven't put the effort in to trying to stop. The final case, where one engages in the addictive behavior today while abstaining "tomorrow" will be familiar to anyone who has struggled with an addiction. The problem here is that (as in other PDs) there is an obvious benefit to defecting "today", but tomorrow one will face the same PD, and the same obvious benefit will be present then, ultimately leading to an endless string of defections.


So, to get out of the addiction loop, we have to realize the only way not to relapse is now and not tomorrow - every day. To cooperate with ourselves for tomorrow.