What Is The Most Extreme Measure You Have Had To Take To Quit Porn?

I guess the most extreme measure was to develope a complex system of blocking mechanisms, which block out porn and other explicit content entirely from all my devices. It took an insane amount of time (trial and error) and a combination of many different things, but it now works great and helps me a lot.

Mostly, yes. Of course no blocker is perfect and you'll always stumble upon certain loopholes; but then it is your duty to figure out a way to fix that loophole. If you do that long enough, you'll close them all eventually...well at least the ones you are likely to find anyways. That's good enough.

Is it a guarantee for sucess? No.
Are there still ways to find porn? Probably...
Does it help nevertheless? Certainly!

The biggest hurdle probably is to analyze your systems long enough, so that you find all the problems. That's not done in a day...You gotta keep working on it all the time. That, and also not to activate the timer for your admin passwords even though you don't really need it (-> Pluckeye Lockbox).

 

My most extreme measure was making myself be so busy that if I indulged on it just for a day, It would crash my entire week of productivity, create a huge back-log of work, fuck my sleep schedule, reduce my general energy, and basically ruin a whole week.

Like requiring 100% of my energy just to maintain my lifestyle, so simply cannot afford to pmo.

 

I completely isolated myself from the internet: left my laptop at the office every night, replaced my smartphone with a dumb phone, and had my wife change the WiFi password to something I didn’t know

I went so far as having her put parental controls on the television.

It helped for a while, but now I wonder if measures like that are counterproductive because reinforce in the mind that this addiction is fun and desirable. I’m starting a new journey now on Allen Carr’s method.

 

This (90 hr workweeks + hobbies + never have any downtime, everything is planned and im never done) + the following;

- Transparent accountability software on my work pc and phone (my AP knows everything i do online) + three blockers on work pc
- I have cut the power cord of my ps3 and home laptop (tried moderation but it always escalates or causes a trigger)
- No acces to digital entertainment at home except for nofap forum and reading reboot related materials on the phone
- Punishment: if i relapse i have to eat dog food (i only relapsed once, the first big 45 day streak, since installing this measure)
- Avoid women/ relationships at all cost (looking, talking, messaging, doing any kind of activity)

 

The most extreme thing I did was not talk to anyone except family and work colleagues. Never used my phone unless it was for something urgent. Didn't talk to friends or even girlfriend. This went on for few days. I noticed a significant difference in my stress levels.

 

@Liam-the-dude, I would be nervous about measures that are too extreme — they are brittle. It is important that you take measures that work, measures you can integrate into your life long-term. Extreme measures, which sound good as proclamations here, may be a bad idea because when you fail to keep them (as you inevitably will) your whole sobriety may fail with them.

 

Broke my laptop twice due to rage after relapsing

 

This is next level

 

Top post! Now you're talking!

And with that rage, PMO is probably not your main issue. That's one way to deemphasize it.

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Destroyed multiple laptops All brand new.

 

I quit a 20-year career in IT so that I wasn't in front of a computer all day. I became a plumber instead! It was one of the hardest things I ever did. I took a 60% pay cut and basically started over again at the bottom in a completely new field. But I became convinced that I would never escape P if I did not first sever my connection to the computer. It was very hard, but I have never regretted the decision. Indeed, it is what started me on a 6.5-year journey that ended in freedom! I would do it all over again, although I hope I never have oto.

 

Sometimes, though, there are bridges that must be burnt behind us. Once they are, we *cannot* go back.

 

My husband started with blockers, made his boss his ap, started group 3x a week and goes to counseling 2x a month. After a year he relapsed, so he took internet off his phone entirely ( we no longer have a computer) one tv in the living room, he retired early from his job, he still attends group but two are private with a small group of men. He still goes to counseling, he did emdr, and biofeedback. He’s been in recovery now for over 2 years, completely clean over a year and half, he also started an intense recovery class that is every day homework for 6 months. He’s done a lot more on top of all that. You literally will need to change your life.

 

And the longer and deeper you've been in, the longer and harder it will be to get out, at least in my experience.

 

I am addicted to live sex webcams more than pre-recorded porn. I have tried all kinds to try and block porn, in no particular order I have smashed 2 lap tops and each time when the desire for porn was so great went out and bought a new one. I have had the internet disconnected completely, when the desire for porn became so strong I bought unlimited data for my phone and ran a lap top through the phone data. Got rid of my smartphone altogether and made do with the landline, went out and bought a new smartphone. I have had blockers gave the password to a friend, managed to get around that. Made up an email address and password that couldn't be remembered for the blocker, got around that. I purchased a safe with a time lock on it, set the time lock for a week or two later (can't remember exactly) put my internet router into it and locked it, managed to smash it open to retreive the router.

I can't remember what else I have done, I admit I am smiling to myself as I write this but these things were done out of sheer desperation and frustration that I couldn't control my porn viewing. This has been going on for years. I joined NoFap 2 weeks ago when I was feeling particularly desperate after spending 2 days on a webcam site, emptied my bank account and had no money for food. I have started a 90 day reboot and so far I haven't lapsed once I am now on day 13. I have given up with the blockers, getting rid of the internet etc. I'm not saying they don't work, they do but for me I need to deal with this issue and reboot my brain that is where the problem is.