Porn-addiction is a behavioral addiction similar to other addictions like gambling and drugs. When you become powerless to resist the urge of watching porn that is known as porn-addiction.
You spend more money and time to fulfill the urge of porn. As a result, you start to neglect your family and loved ones.
When you become irritable, anxious, and stressed without watching porn, at that time you want to overcome this addiction. But in most of the cases, it becomes difficult for you to get rid porn addiction.
Nothing to worry my dears. There is no addiction in our life which we can not overcome if we try sincerely. Here, in this article, find all possible methods to overcome porn-addiction.
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Symptoms Of Porn Addiction
Sometimes you defend yourself at your friends that you are not addicted to porn. But you have to give some time to yourself and examine that whether you are porn-addicted or not. Let’s know about them.
Here are some symptoms to evaluate yourself.
- Thinking about porn even when you are busy in some other important work.
- An uncontrolled craving for viewing porn in social situations.
- A feeling of guilt and becoming depressed after viewing it.
- When you are completely aware of the harm of watching porn upon your work and relationship but you are still continuing it.
- When you are getting more satisfaction in sex by watching porn than your partner.
- You are keeping your addiction secret from your spouse or sex partner.
- When some of your friends ask you to stop it but you become upset.
- You are trying your best to quit this porn-addiction but in vain.
- When you have no sense of timing during watching porn.
- When this addiction becomes more prior for you than any other work.
How Do You Recover From The Porn-Addiction
An addiction is a destructive disease which is a hard thing to kick away but curable. When any addiction captures you, it wraps you like an octopus.
You try to release yourself because only you know how tough the situation is. So you have to kill the octopus to release yourself from its arrest. Like this, you have to kill your addiction from the root. Ony you can do this, nobody else can.
Recover from any addiction is difficult but possible. Let’s follow some steps to be free from this demon.
1. Cut Off the Accessibility
Nowadays, it is very easy to access anything you want to watch through the internet. You can watch pornography whenever or wherever there is an urge for it.
Even it makes you sure that no one can see the browsing history in your device. But you have to cut off these accessibilities to take the 1st step against porn addiction.
- 1st step is to unsubscribe yourself from porn websites.
- Block the people who are sending you compromising emails.
- Remove all the pornographic videos and photos from your devices.
- Throw away all the magazines and journals which contain porn stuff.
- Clean all the viruses and malware from your computer which gives you lots of porn ads and pop-ups.
For your kind information, about 75% of men have overcome their porn habit by clearing the access.
2.Download Porn-Blocker Softwares
The next step is to download the software which can block the porn sites in your cell phone and computer. You have to download them on the computer at your workplace also. Be sure that you have shared the password of this software to one of your friends.
The work of this software is to:
- send all the browsing history of your to a chosen friend by you.
- help you limit the porn sites you open.
- monitor the time you have spent on watching porn.
- tact like parental controls for your devices.
About 70% of men have been got success by installing website blocker software.
Here is a list of some porn-blocking software.
- Covenant Eyes.
- K9 Web Filter
- www.X3watch.com
3. Take The Help Of Some Good Books
There is a very inspiring quote by William Feather is, “Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.” We all know that books are the real friends of a person. A good book can solve your problems.
There are also some good books on overcoming porn addiction.
You must read these books and take the help of them such as:
- The Game Plan By Joe Dallas
- Every Man’s Battle: Winning The War On Sexual Purity
- One Victory At A Time by Stephen Arterburn
About 34% of people overcome the addiction by following this formula.
4.Understand The Value Of Your Time
Every addiction needs more time and attention towards it. When you become captured by porn addiction it takes away most of your valuable time. You spent a lot of your time watching porn which you can give to your loved ones.
I am not telling you to stop the habit in a sudden. No addiction can be stopped in a while. You have to decrease the time of watching porn.
Let’s follow some tips.
- You have to calculate the watching-time honestly.
- Now compare the time you have wasted with the delayed or pending works you have.
- Don’t be dishearten. Face the challenge bravely.
- You have to decrease the timing slowly.
- Make goals to cut off the timing, then the days, and then the weeks.
- Set a goal to watch only three times in a week, then 3 weeks in a month, or once a month.
- Definitely, you will succeed to quit this addiction. Because due to time-limit you will lack your interest towards the addiction.
- As a result, you can spend those times with your loved ones.
About 56% of people overcome porn addiction to fill their time with other activities.
5.Focus Your Attention In New Hobbies
It is a good idea to replace the timing of watching porn with a new hobby. There must be a hobby which you have forgotten for some time.
It will be easy for you to resist the temptation to watch.
- Try to spend time in the hobbies like painting, singing, or playing any musical instrument.
- If you have an interest in sports it is a very good substitute for you to spend the time.
- Go for a long drive with your friends or with your life partner.
- Reconnect with your friends and dear ones whom you have neglected for a long time.
- Spend time with the elders and children in your family.
About 32% took up new hobbies to end up the porn addiction and become successful.
6.Learn How To Educate Yourself Against Pornography
Once you become serious about overcoming your addiction, the next step is to educate yourself about the real cause. You must find out the reason which insists you to watch pornography. It will strengthen you to fight against the addiction.
Search online for the eBooks about how to stop pornography. You can find the resources online which will help you a lot to beat the porn-addiction.
If you are a student try to keep you busy with your studies. Spent time with a studious friend of yours who will help you overcome it.
Read the books like:
- 101 Tips For Recovering From Addiction
- Freedom From Addiction by David Symon
- Tales Of Addiction And Inspiration For Recovery
7.Do Yoga & Meditation
Yoga and meditation help you to overcome an addiction physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. They heal your body and mind by strengthening you overall.
- Yoga reduces the anxiety, urge, and the symptoms that trigger watching porn.
- Yoga allows you physically process discomfort and disconnection. Meditation teaches you to survive without an addiction.
- Meditation keeps you strong in your decision. Yoga connects your brain with the heart to fight against addiction
- An hour of yoga and meditation opens the door towards the success of overcoming porn addiction.
- Yoga reduces the craving for watching porn by improving attention and awareness. Meditation reduces stress and anxiety.
About 70% of people have overcome porn addiction through yoga and meditation.
8.Breathing Exercise
25 minutes of breathing exercise improves the general function of your body when you are on the way overcome any addiction. You can notice that when there is an urge to watch porn your pulse rate increases and the anxiety level is too high. At that particular time, a breathing exercise can suppress your urge.
- You have to start the process by breathing frequently.
- Next, close your eyes and breath in for 10 minutes.
- Next, breathe out for 10 minutes.
- Do this process for 15 minutes.
- A daily breathing exercise of 25 minutes will help you a lot to overcome the porn addiction completely within 15 days.
All the above tricks were the technical steps to overcome porn-addiction. Let’s try some practical and psychological tricks which are easy to follow.
9. Realise The Realistic
- When you decide to overcome an addiction the 1st thing is you have to realise the reality.
- You must accept the fact that what you are doing is wrong.
- Don’t try to justify your addiction. It will help you nowhere.
- Don’t blame others for your addiction. For example, your wife is not satisfying you physically. she is not attractive, she is not affectionate, etc.
- You have to decide which is more important for you: to overcome the addiction or to justify it.
About 65% of people gave up porn by understanding what triggered their porn.
10.Do A Commitment With Yourself
- You need a strong commitment with yourself to eliminate any addiction.
- A porn addiction also needs a strong and honest decision from you to go away and not to come back.
- Take the help of a professional counseller.
- You may take the help of a professional psychologist also.
- You must be committed yourself that pornography is not important than your family, spouse, and children.
- Keep a strong belief that you must repair your broken relationship.
- A decision can last for a few time but a commitment can never.
11. Improve Your Relationship
- About 83% of people have got success by improving their relationship with their partners or spouse.
- Some have started a new relationship if they are single.
- Some have taken the help of a per to improve their mind and t fill the time.
- A new responsibility will definitely demand more time and more attention. And you will never try to lose your new experience.
12. Be Spiritual
Spiritualism is the best way to live a better life without any regrets. Some of you may believe on that superpower some may not. But there is obviously a great power which motivates us to do or not to do.
When you do a bad thing which your soul is not accepting that is the situation to remember that superpower. So you may take help of that superpower to leave the addiction to porn also.
- To suppress an urge to watch porn, do a prayer to control your mind.
- Realise that without salvation there is no possibility to beat pornography.
- I am not telling that God will do an instant miracle upon you but through believe and desperation you will overcome this addiction.
- A prayer will distract your mind from the pornography and you will be able to skip your mind from that.
- Try to go to a nearby temple or church to keep your mind from this nasty addiction.
- Find out the spiritual sayings of pure sex.
If you are an atheist, read some novels about the true meanings of life. You will realize the difference between fantasy and reality.
Some Basic Tips to Follow
- Sleep early and rise early. A change in lifestyle helps a lot to fight against any addiction.
- When there is an urge to watch pornography, wash your face and drink lots of water.
- Never make any resolution to eliminate the addiction. Just try to do it.
- Try your best not to stay alone. It will insist you to go back.
- Do some changes in your privacy at work. Try to set your table in the living room or where the family members gather. As a result, you can control your fingers on your laptop or computer.
- Go for a walk. Join a gym. It will fill up your time.
- Don’t try to rush after the recovery.
- Face each new day with more interesting jobs to do.
- Remember, honesty is the most powerful tool in a relationship.
- Be brave to tell your partner about your addiction without any fear or hesitation.
- Tru intimacy needs honesty and vulnerability.
- Keep in your mind that the 1st healing hand in your recovery is of your spouse.
Some Of The Best Porn Addiction Recovery Quotes For You
In some cases, I have seen that the positive quotes work great to influence your mind. I am giving here some chosen quotes of great people. Read them, definitely, you will find some solutions to your present problem of porn addiction.
- “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!'”
- “Believe you can and you are halfway there.”
- “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The 2nd best time is now.”
- “Success is the sum of small efforts.”
- “To get the right direction, keep on walking.”
- “If things go wrong, don’t go with them.”
- “Each work always seems impossible, until it is done.”
- “Every worthy act is always difficult.”
- “If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.”
- “Patience, willpower, and determination can boon you every success.”
Side Effects Of Porn-Addiction
We all know well that every action has a reaction. A positive action has a positive one and a negative has a negative one.
And porn-addiction is definitely not a positive action. So you must be aware of all the negative effects of pornography.
Let me tell about them to you.
- 1st thing is you will go through guilt and shame after watching porn.
- You are on the way to live with a broken relationship.
- You will be far away from your loving ones due to wasting of time in porn-watching.
- Porn addiction can degrade your studies if you are a student.
- There is a high risk of unhealthy and dangerous sex activities.
- Masturbation will become the main entertainment for you.
- You may suffer from sexually transmitted diseases.
- You will be morally down by thinking about the addiction all the time.
Final Talk
Any type of addiction is a serious illness. To suppress an addiction is very painful but the victory over it is the sweetest fruit ever.
But to get the victory you have to stop the war between fantasy and reality. You have to accept that a bad addiction will take you nowhere. It will ruin your life and your relationship. It will force you to live with guilt and stress.
Hope you will try any of the above remedies which are suitable for you to eliminate porn addiction.
