Are there certain auxiliary practices alongside the three factors which would help fighting against the pull towards repeating bad habits? After the initial motivation to change fades away, the habits return with a lot of force, even if we manage to keep them at bay for some time, slowly they may draw us in once again until we are back at square 1, the more this takes place the more it feels like there is no hope of change. Is it possible for someone who is sinking deeply in the mud of sin to ever be clean again?