Dual addiction quitting - P and Tobacco

I can't speak from experience, but I encourage you to give up both. Assuming you are addicted to both porn and smoking, you have two addictions to rely on. When things go badly in your life, you rely on not just one, but two behaviours. Removing both of them will lead to a healthy recovery, but the key here is that you MUST work on managing your emotional state as well. When you are stressed or bored or whatever, you must rely on natural behaviours and your values to stabilise yourself. You must learn this at all costs. Not doing so will result in what you described. Once the crisis of addiction passes, you will no longer have a driving force and you will fall back to your previous behaviours. So please think about what you are doing now and your recovery in depth. Self improvement and prioritising values will lead to long term recovery.

Good luck.

DS.

 

I tried quitting smoking and PMO at the same time. I quit smoking but failed at quitting PMO...

 

I think you should try both. What this is really about is cleaning up your mind and not being at the whim of it's impulses and urges. If you do it right fighting one will make it easier to fight the other... if you try and white knuckle it then you'll be exhausted and fail at both... but there are very few people who can white knuckle their way out of PMO

 

I quit smoking tobacco, but I use a vape pen every now and then. It doesn't have all the chemicals that a normal cigarette has, but it still has chemicals, but quitting nicotine has been one of the hardest things for me. PMO was extremely difficult in the beginning, but after gaining will power I could get rid of it. I think nicotine is harder to quit because it's just there, I can take my vape pen and use it whenever I want to, it doesn't smell, I can do it in front of my family, I can put it down if I don't feel like vaping. And it doesn't give me all the problems that watching porn gives me. I don't have to hide it or feel ashamed of it. But I hope I'll throw it away one day. But going back to normal cigarettes is a big no no for me.

 

Hey. I've quit nicotine (vaping) along with PMO. Just as I quit tobacco along with drinking.

I personally need to have as little addictions as possible in my life. Because I have an addictive personality.

If I decide that I can be addicted to one thing, then it is going to be easier for me to give myself permission to be addicted to other things.

 

I always thought giving up smoking would be the hardest thing I had ever had to do in my life... Until I decided to try and give up porn. Keep up all and any attempts to get the negative things out of your life and never rationalize them. Smoking is so so bad for you.