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Easy answer: don't use willpower. Ever.
I quit it cold turkey in late 2007, and can count on one hand the number of times I've been tempted to use it since.
(Edit to add: I quit it in order to force myself to learn to understand the things that blocked me, and to learn more effective ways to accomplish things than by pushing through resistance. It worked.)
Could you do a post on that?
Consider cognitive behavioral therapy. You don't get someone to change their behavior by telling them to try really hard. You get them to convince themselves that they will get what they want if they change their behavior.
People do what they want to do. We've gone over this in the dieting threads.