I can barely make it 12 hours without watching porn

I know that feeling. Been there many times. The loop won't stop until you break the conditions that cause you to relapse, eg using a laptop in the privacy of your room.

Find something to do. Meet friends. Go out to the movies. Exercise to the point of exhaustion.

Habit breaking is dependent on change. Good luck!

 

Have a good look around this site. Get to the point where you really understand all the negative sides of this addiction and the positive sides of quitting. Get to the point that you REALLY DEEP DOWN resolve to quit. Then set up your tracker so you can get feedback on the progress. An important thing to do is to fill your time with worthwhile activities. Sitting on your own saying 'I must not look at porn' is not going to end well. (Like saying 'I must not think of an elephant). Like you, I had got to the stage of wasting hours on this crap. This site gave me the resolve to quit and one month on I feel SO much better.

Good luck to you.

ANH

 

Hi .

Other people on here have had some great ideas. To reinforce: Set up the tracker, so you can physically see the number in front of you for how many days you've been clean. Seeing the number rather than imaging it really hits home. I've personaly fasted from electronics before. I did it for a week. It wasn't exactly for porn but you can do it for that. Just don't touch whatever it is you designate not to touch. Use that time and force yourself to do something else... I read a Dr. Who book a while ago... I hate reading, other than online. and I found it to be quite fun and engaging. so trying something you found to not like before may change.

As to the NEGATIVE ASPECTS of PORN, like another person mentioned, find them out. HERE"S ONE OF MINE: I GAVE UP TIME FOR OTHER PEOPLE. PRECIOUS TIME THAT I WILL NEVER GET BACK. AND THAT MAKES ME SAD. IT LEGITIMATELY MADE ME SAD WHEN I ACTUALLY THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT I DID.

Jesus Loves You, and I love you too.

 

You're an addict so you have to start somewhere. You didn't become a deviant overnight so you're not gonna heal over night. If you cant make it 12 hours make 12 hours your goal. Then try and go a day. Its gonna suck but you have to accept that and move through it. Set reasonable goals, take your time, don't judge yourself when you relapse and don't quit.

 

Get a job that keeps you busy... that will drastically reduce the amount of time possible for PMO

 

You absolutely, positively, must must MUST install a filter or blocker on your devices.

You said it yourself--this is an all-consuming addiction and you're desperate for help. If you don't install some kind of blocker to keep you from accessing porn, then you're like an alcoholic trying to get sober while sitting in a bar where you get all the free drinks you want. In other words, it's next to impossible.

Give yourself a fair shot at sobriety. Put some obstacles between you and porn.

If you're an iPhone user, look in my signature for a video about how to lock down your phone. But there are probably a dozen threads here about the various filters available to you, and which ones are the most recommended. I'd start there.

You can get some traction on this, I promise. You just need to be willing to try some new strategies.

 

Me too a porn addict. I believe I have a porn addiction and it's affecting badly on my life.
I don't have a lot of motivation after I'm using porn and I believe that it connected to the fact that porn bring me things so easilly - just in a touch on the click of the mouse and I have tons of seductive information - photos, videos, erotic stories, infront of me.

 

I probably should stop doing it.
I find it really hard thing to do.
Something telling me that for stop seeing porn first I have to live my life as I want them to lived by.
not to be afraid from comments on who I am and if I have unconventional feelings about different things that the society have consensus about it.
I'm not ashamed to be who I am and I'm connected to my body very much.
If I will start to do accountability to anything it will probably not end.
I want to free myself from the chains and handcuffs that the society is bring to me and I want to be myself without the need of affraid from being accepted by anyone else.