Does This Have A Detrimental Effect?

I've spent 23 years more or less edging to PMO, so, not to make excuses for not going all-in, but I think divorcing my brain from a) the dopamine bath of edging and b) combining P, M, and O together, would do me enormous good.

My goal, of course, is to abstain entirely. But I'm finding 100% abstinence challenging. Sometimes my brain wants to peek at a photo for two seconds and its satisfied. Which, yes, is cheating, but it's .01% of what I used to spend on this sh*t.

Also, I've found myself craving a particular video and can't necessarily stop it, but I can control how far I go in responding to it. All these years, I approached watching P like a real sexual experience, in that I edged in detail to every minute of the video without skipping ahead. I've found that I can hack my brain's craving by opening said video, quickly dragging the slider all the way to the end without really watching it, and doing so totally ruins the video in my mind. My brain no longer wants it, and I immediately delete it without even thinking twice about hanging on to it for later. Again, it's cheating (for 2-3 seconds), but it quells the craving for another 2, 3, 4 days, and it's a sustainable hack that works for my own personal situation.

Fortunately, at my age, the need to MO isn't really strong, unless I combine it with P, as they are chemically linked. I feel as though my end-game is unlinking them, and the desire for P will probably subside since there's no "good" feeling that goes with it anymore. I could be wrong, but we'll see.

But, is a few seconds here and there really going to stunt my brain from healing itself? In a way, I see this as a means of hacking my way to the goal of total recovery, whereas going all-in might just result in cravings so intense that I inevitably fail.

 

5-10 minutes would be great, but mine last until I either satisfy them or hijack them, as with the scenario above. They'll last for days until I do.