Has anyone found quitting the P...easy?

Do you work a lot?
I find if I stay busy I don’t watch P but I still want to MO.
I think more people struggle with P if they don’t work.
You gotta have a lot of time for P not as much with MO

 

Hey there,

First of all congrats on your 1 1/2 months without Porn!!

The short answer for ur question is: yes there are a lot of people out there having an easy time quitting porn but still struggling with Masturbation.... (these behaviours CAN be rather independent from eachother)

Sorry for the long text.... I tend to ramble -. -^

I have been struggling with PMO for around a year now.
In my opinion it strongly varies how severe ur addiction to Porn or Masturbation is!
I still have not met anyone who had a really hard time not watching Porn. Most people i have talked to use Porn in order to increase the stimulus during Masturbation, but if they get a "good-enough high" from their imagination they can easily stop watching porn. What i am trying ti say is that there are people whi actually are rather addicted to Masturbation than to Porn and therfore quitting Porn is easier for them. This also enables u to stay away from porn on your own( no staches, no forums etc.)

It is a different thing for Masturbation for The most of us (if not all), Masturbation is the actual drug and it takes a lot more energy to commit to quitting and find other behaviours to cope wirh difficult situations.

For me personally quitting porn is quite easy as long as i stay away from any kind of triggers- those however are plenty and therefore i need a lot of energy to cool down... And often i have to struggle. With my self about the necessity if actually cooling down and not making an exception (commitment again).

I wish u luck on your challenge and am Looking forward to yiur response =)

 

Do you ever get triggered from watching Netflix?
Binge watching is something that always got me. I had to stop.
Some people can watch tv and be fine but it’s actually how I got started with PMO in the first place.

 

For me it's exactly the opposite. Quitting masturbation is rather easy but it's porn that makes this journey difficult for me. I don't know, maybe because masturbation was something I always did while watching porn.

 

One thing is that if someone is JUST STARTING to get addicted, the addiction has not been as prolonged as it would have in most chronic addicts. Because of this, it may be easier to quit, as the longer you are addicted, the more your addiction is fed and the more "permanent" (as in the addictive programmings solidify) it becomes. Although if you are just staring to get addicted, and do not have as much pain/problems as a more chronic addict may have, IT IS STILL IMPORTANT TO QUIT. This is crucial, as if you do not, you may become chronically addicted, in the future, and you can save yourself before having to experience as much pain. So quit either way, and be grateful that you could quit before things got too extreme (and your pain capped at where you left off).

This goes to other "true" (in that the programming coheres to the specific traits of the disorder) addition. Be it, games, cocaine, tobacco, alcohol, opiates, gambling, porn, etc. If anything is takes past moderation, ABSTINENCE is the key to saving yourself, in the future.

 

When i started my first streak was 204 days

 

I myself have the similar issue, I am able to stay away from porn quite easily, but the masturbation seems to be the tough part, yes I do have thoughts cross my mind about the porn I used to watch but I find it easily avoided, masturbation on the other hand used to come up in am instant, even while driving, but have been able to avoid it because my s.o and I have decided to both go nofap, brining us closer , but in starting to ramble

keep fighting