Is my challenge tougher than everyone else's?

In all honesty if you want to quit this habit you shouldn't be even taking a peak at these sites. It is good you are not unwinded and binging on this, but even searching and looking out of curiosity is a setback and I am sure everyone else will agree.

I agree with you %100 with what you say on how easy it is to get access to P nowadays. It is why it can be so hard to quit. What you have to do is just limit yourself to what gives you access. Maybe limit the time you are on the internet, or install k9 blocker.

On my last streak I was doing great and I would have urges here and there but they would go away on their own. I decided to look at P for a few minutes once and that nearly led to a relapse and I had to fight the urges for a few days. Point being, you are only making it harder for yourself by giving yourself access to P even if it is out of curiosity. It will surely lead to a relapse. Congrats on 5 days and keep up the good work!

 

No, not really. The quality or predictability of what you watch is not that important. What is more instructive is the age you started watching high-speed internet porn and to some extent the genres you got into to and your age now. Peeking requires a reset if you are serious about healing the neural pathways and rebooting to factory settings.

 

Not at all. The challenge is the same for everyone, and to apply a difficulty to it is just an excuse or justification for failure.

Have you truly committed to quitting? If so, you should now cut off your access. Delete your accounts and saved files, and install filtering software.

If you can't do that, you aren't committed yet. Rather you've tricked yourself into thinking you have.

 

The thing is: You will not only have to quit porn, you will have to say goodbye to porn, to being up to date, to know who's new in the business, to see who's freshly recruited. It will take a real goodbye, and by that I mean grieving. That's what makes it extra hard. I had a period of grieving when I started out, even though I never had access to premium P. I was so used to checking out who's new that it made me sad to miss the next perfect face. It was a little like losing a friend, even though we all know that P is fake. But it was a necessary step for me. From then it was on to new shores.

You can do it. Rooting for you!

 

'Sexy girls' in 'porn?? Are you serious?? You really need to get out of our room!

Have you ever seen something sexier than girl smiling at you just because you stand next to her?

 

Echoing what others have said - say goodbye. Stop checking. The thinking about porn has the same impact on the brain as watching it. The same is likely true of looking at the schedules. Just in your description of the amateur girls I had flashbacks.

 

Nice to see you there bro
before I accepted the challange, the Ps I watched were also the premium type you mentioned------- beautiful covers, super high resolutions, slim, blonde... all the high-quality ones, whatever, you name them. However, in my opinion, porn preference has not much to do with keeping your mind away from PMOs, since people there watching cheap porns like you mentioned, might be generating even more pleasure than you and I do, and I believe that sensual connection is which makes the way of detaching from porns harder.
Like you said, you have a schedule of porn releases in your mind. That should be something to fight with, since you might bond certain days of week with the desire to watch porns. Like every Tuesday, the idea of Gangbang might just pop up in your mind. but dont worry, according to some studies, habits can be somehow altered within a month. See now you have made it 5 days, day by day the connection will be weakened and things will be better.

Last point, stop thinking sexual things, like how hot the girls become in today's P industry; focus more on your life besides sex, which will made all the hard parts of rebooting much easier, try workouts

 

Quitting porn causes some grief, loss and sadness. For me it was the faces, and the thought of not seeing those pretty faces again, or not seeing/discovering new ones. It was a feeling of loss, and it is easy to focus too much on what you loose.

One thing that helped me, was to think of the loss as something final. Like if someone close to you died, or remembering that great year of backpacking around the world, that you will never be able to experience again. I know that sounds pretty harsh, but it helped me change the feeling of that loss from something I could make up for (like I lost my jacket, I can buy a new one) to something final (like my grandpa died, I can never get him back). While it makes the loss feel worse to begin with, it also forces you into the process of getting over it, of letting go.
So for me, now, porn is dead, and we will never see each other again.

Some sort of filtering (k9 or as simple as just editing your hosts file to redirect your favorite sites to 127.0.0.1), while possible to get around in many cases, at least causes you to stop and think a little. And that little pause may be what you need to stop what you're doing and do something else. Especially if it's something you do almost without thinking.

And, as others have said, stop peeking, and don't look for substitutes. That's how nearly all my relapses have started. Others have started when I start thinking about porn, and don't have anything else to do (like I'm on a long bus ride). At some point I have unconsciously made up my mind to look, and then it's pretty hard to stop.

You can do it! Hard or not, it is possible.

 

BTW - no problem on the flashback - that's just my brain firing.

My point is similar to what EdwardL and SpeakerBear said - stop peaking, turn your thoughts away from sexual things. That's what will help rewire your brain.

And, as SpeakerBear said - you can do it!