STEPS TO QUIT COMPULSIVE PORN AND SEX ADDICTION
WRITTEN BY: TIM H, AUTHOR OF OVER 50 ARTICLES ON QUITTING PORN AND SEX ADDICTION.
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To Quit Porn & Sex Addiction (SA) easily we have a free 40-day program. Firstly, on day 1 we learn a porn & sex addiction relapse prevention strategy. Next, we study people who have quit to see what they do. Lastly, to stop a porn habit – develop the habit of distracting your mind.
In the same vein on day 2: We learn how to get rid of Porn or Sex addiction by developing new hobbies/interests and habits (on average it takes 66 days to change habits) and we start learning how to find real joy. Because changing habits are the key to recovery and learning how to stop. Secondly, learn 200 new habits at this site. If you watch porn on a phone at school or work, bring a list of better things to view instead.
3: We focus on how quitting addiction exercises gives you the power to give up internet porn or bad sex habits. Next, we learn a new code that helps us do better things instead.
SELF-CONTROL
Day 4: Learn How To Quit Porn by increasing self-control of emotions. Because negative emotions make a porn addiction worse. Secondly, does frustration or being bored lead you to watching porn. Instead, focus on being porn-free by exercising, making friends, or playing music. Most importantly, an active lifestyle is a key to stopping porn addiction. Finally, lower temptation by turning aggressively away from nudity or sex on TV or in movies. It also helps to avoid erotic movies, porn fantasies, and Victoria’s secret type smut.
5: Moreover, don’t exaggerate the pleasure of artificial sexual stimulation – lust’s pleasures are very short-term and they cause destruction. Lastly, we learn how clean activities lead to a great month filled with joy instead of the mad cycle of addiction.
QUIT PORN AND SEX ADDICTION BY FOCUSING ON THE LONG TERM
In addition on day 6: Review good advice until you develop new habits. Key point: If you develop habits of interesting and compelling activities, you will have less temptation. Secondly, addiction always ruins tomorrow today. Focus on having a great day tomorrow and living right today.
7: Likewise, anything we do in excess usually leads back to our main addiction. Plan your moderation, it will help you stop.
8: Most importantly, change your thoughts and your actions will start to change. As a result, porn-induced ED will change also.
On this day (9): Learn the skill to keep fighting when life gets hard. Next, develop positive addictions. Highly important.
10: We look at the consequences of addiction and how emotions bring us back to counterfeit sexual stimuli.
STOP PORN BY LEARNING TO FIGHT YOUR TRIGGERS
Become an expert at every single thing that triggers your habit. Then develop an expert plan on how to react to the bad things that always happen to us. Day 11: Fight your triggers. Be ready for triggers and have an activity planned for the event. For example, when tempted to download porn – SA – I will go jogging or play the keyboard.
In the past, when we got depressed, we would look at porn (a short-term solution). In the future we will have great activities planned like: Helping others, focusing on Spiritual growth, finding a purpose. These are long-term solutions that are not as much fun for the next 20 minutes, but they allow you to have a great week, month, year, life.
Above all, believe. On day 12: Praying to fight Pornography consumption or Sex Habits. If you want a completely new life – study this program one day at a time for 43 days.
Day 13: Stop watching porn by learning what will satisfy you and how to get it. Secondly, when you fear you can’t stop, try focusing a set amount of time daily on quitting porn programs online which will give you the ammo needed to quit.
Additionally on day 14, having fire in your life helps you reboot and rewire from compulsive sex – to quit downloading porn for good.
HABITS
Consequently, we become what we do. If in 3 months you formed the habit of being a guitar player, a runner, and a pool player you will have increased the bullets in your gun to fight the temptation and overstimulation of porn and SA.
Most importantly, on day 16: Self-Control and how to get it.
Next, focus on the destruction the porn or sex addiction gives you. Then use that motivation to inspire yourself to find other things to do. This is a key step to learn How to Stop Watching Porn. Our program will motivate you to stop the overindulgence of pornography and move on.
Day 17: Don’t let external events control you. Learn to control your feelings no matter what. Develop habits of thinking a certain way, “No matter what happens.” Lastly, what do you put inside of you. What do you look at? What do you think about? Because, when bad things happens they will squeeze out what is inside of you. This day has a lot about self-control because we need to put different things inside of us in advance.
Additionally on day 18, toughness is something we want to put inside of us.
19: Learn to focus on what is good in your life, not what is bad. Don’t let the bad eat up the good. Day 19 focuses on that as well as a lot about how to pray.
The Magic Lever is day 20’s topic. It’s Spiritual, it’s mathematical, it is real.
Above all, believing in a higher power helps for permanent behavior change. You can overcome pornography or sex addiction, believe it. Christians will love this site and people looking for real Spiritual answers will love it.
PORN BLOCKING PROGRAMS
NET NANNY: Has a fee, but it blocks mobile devices as well.
SELF-CONTROL FOR MAC: Free – allows you to block illicit sites.
COLD TURKEY: For windows.
X3 WATCH: Premium and free versions. With the freeby, you’ll pick an accountability partner or 2. Week after week, they’ll get an email report of what sites you’ve looked at. With the premium adaptation, they get instant notifications.
Similar and it’s $9.99 monthly. It helps you stop looking at bad things in the internet.
R/NOFAP: A Reddit site. Tracking results with not masturbating is big here. The support from others who are in the same boat is helpful. Improvements help with curing erectile dysfunction and delayed ejaculation. Highly recommended.
Some write about the positive effects of pornography. All lies. Remind yourself continuously that it always ends badly.
Start your 66-day journey to new habits now. Day one.