Can I just masturbate or is cold turkey the only way?

I would recommend everything since it is now correlated to porn it has to be disassociated from it. You need to separate one from the other.

 

This is right on, exactly to the point.

 

I'm doing "easy mode" right now. I can watch P or I can MO but I cannot do both at the same time.

I write it this way: P|MO

The line, I call the FIREWALL. As long as I don't cross the FIREWALL I'm a-ok. That's where the most of the damage happens.

Maybe I'll stop MO altogether one day, but I've hit rock bottom and I can no longer live with myself doing PMO and doing nothing about it. P is not as fun without MO. It's like that epoxy where the two chemicals are inert until you mix them together then it becomes super strong glue. It becomes more than the sum of its parts.

 

Yes, you need to abstain even from masturbation. The desire to masturbate comes from your addiction to porn. Like Angie2018 said, you need to disassociate the one from the other. (FYI: I'm only abstaining from P & M since I still want to have sex with my wife.)

If the desire to masturbate occurs primarily in the early morning, I have two suggestions. The first is, if you have time before you head to work or school or wherever you might need to be that morning, go to the gym and work out. If you don't have time to go to the gym, then take a cold shower. The first will help dissipate the pressure building up inside of you, and the second will eradicate it. If you have time after either to meditate, then follow up by centering yourself. If not, mediate before bedtime. That might also help relieve those early morning desires.

 

what does the term cold turkey mean?

 

It means abstaining no matter how much you want to watch porn or masturbate. It means telling your body that, yes, I know you want those endorphins released, but I can’t do it the way I used to because that’s unhealthy, and I want you to get healthy.

 

Oh alright thanks bro.

 

You can do whatever you want

 

Easy mode is a joke bro. You will never reboot if you watch porn even if you dont masturbate and masturbate without porn. It never works in the long run. If you wanna quit and reboot you gotta leave em all. Dont even watch videos or movies which can trigger you. Stop it all together.

 

You think you know the answer? So why it is so hard to follow your intuition?

Cold turkey is best method, because of chaser effect (once you start you fall to the bottomless pit) and you have clear line between fucking up and succeeding. Definitely, go for cold turkey, and also, this helpful article, read it.
http://husbandhelphaven.com/porn-addiction-withdrawal-walkthrough/

Some1 posted it for me, now I give it to you

 

This may sound strange but I really do think there's a connection between your urges to masturbate in the morning and the foods you eat.

The things we put in our bodies really can affect neurotransmitters so much that they start to affect sex drive. The most obvious foods are processed foods: refined sugar, soda's, ... but also, and I think this is often overlooked - things like dairy, which is packed with hormones. This intake of animal hormones can cause things like copper toxicity and stimulate sex drive. Dairy cows, of course are always female. It isn't that hard to imagine what can happen if you, as a grown or adolescent male, drink a cow's estrogen and growth hormones on a daily basis. Not saying all animal products are bad but you can bet dairy is full of sex hormones and can affect your own sex drive.
High libido is often described as something healthy but it really is not when it becomes something you find hard to control.

A clean diet of veggies, lean meats, whole wheat products etc should help control your urges and make you feel as if you're more in control.

 

I would argue that it 'may' be ok to masturbate as to do so from our own thoughts and fantasies is a 'natural' act. However porn is the real demon here. And porn in the internet era is far from natural.
If you have the need to do one then MO and eradicate P from your life forever.
Good luck

 

The expression "to go cold turkey" means to stop doing something, without exceptions. It's used by people when trying to break an addiction. For example, if you wanted to quit smoking, you could buy an e-cigarette, reduce the number or cigarettes smoked during the day, or go cold turkey by stopping assuming nicotine in every form (not even one cig a day, e-cigarette or nicotine patches).

 

You will need to experiment with your own body to find out what works.

I am doing 30 days no masturbation + porn + orgasm. Then moving onto masturbation without P, only using a fleshlight once a week and slowly building it back up to combat death grip and porn addiction.

 

Thanks. Was so confused

 

Thanks