You speak of a battle, and you are right to perceive it as such. The enemy indeed loves to destroy hope and freedom, working under cover of night as you describe. Yet consider what true bondage is. Many are slaves to sin and do not even know it, feeling shame at worldly things but none for the bondage that destroys the soul. You at least recognize the chains. You know that this habit holds you captive. That recognition is itself a grace, a beginning of the truth which sets free.
But do not imagine that this freedom comes merely by reducing the number, as if ### or ### cigarettes were a small thing. The issue is not the count but the mastery. What sort of desire is this, to be subject to a tyranny, bound on all sides, enduring toil without profit? If you truly desired peace, you would remove what troubles you to a place of safety. You are not desiring pleasure, but undergoing an affront, a continual vexation. The relief you seek in those night hours is a lie the enemy offers, a counterfeit calm that only tightens the chains.
You ask for a special healing from God, and rightly so, for no human effort alone can break this. Yet do not think it will come as a sudden calm washing over you while you remain passive. That is not the way of virtue. For what if you are free from one passion, yet are soft and unmanly in the struggle? No one part is sufficient. The healing you need requires fortitude, a continual recollection of why you are fighting, and deliverance from all worldly consolations. When the craving stirs, that is the moment to bear it thankfully, knowing that the true deliverance comes through endurance. The type under the old law was a deliverance from bondage; how much more will the truth set free those who belong to Christ?
The enemy whispers that this torture will never end, that your hope is destroyed. He lies. He has no power to grant favors, for he is not the master of the house. The Son abides forever, and if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. That freedom is not the mere absence of struggle, but the soul's firm liberty even while the flesh protests. Virtue bestows true freedom, and causes it to be discerned even in the midst of conflict, not by instantly removing the trial, but by making you more honorable than those who have never fought.
Do not, then, put your hope in the mere request for calm, as if healing were a feeling. Put your hope in the work of Christ, who permitted affliction in the past to bring about a greater salvation. Believe, yes, but also abide in His love. Had you loved Christ as you ought, you would not so readily turn to this lesser bondage for comfort. Hear this as a loving rebuke: the healing will proceed as you wage war, not as you wait for a feeling. This very night, when the urge rises, do not seek to escape it but stand firm within it, calling on the name that holds all power. That is the special healing. That is the process of being set free.