The AP90 (Anti-Porn)

[GettingBig2017]

Day 16 complete! For some reason today was very challenging but I still helf off.

[GettingBig2017]

Day 17 complete!

[the_iron]

It has been a really long time since I posted here. Checking from the archives, the last time I posted here was on 23^rd April 2018. By then I had been 100% porn free and masturbation free for 333 days. Now being 30^th Dec 2018, - that is 251 days more without either porn or masturbation making the total cured days 584 .

To me this problem is permanently solved.

Details of my journey on permanently curing this problem are detailed here in this thread. Read through.

On Updates on what it is now without porn or masturbation, here is the update:

The hardest part of quitting an addiction lies in the beginning days. This is especially true for porn and masturbation. At the moment just before you decide to ditch porn and hand sex, your body vehemently rebels the move and sets out to be your number one foe. And it does this in very creative manners that chances are almost guaranteed that you will slip and fall back to the despicable habit.

The biggest obstacle one faces when quitting porn is the Almost Instant Decreased Quality of Life. You literally become worse than when you started and it takes tremendous amount of will power to push through. The negative effects that made you decide to quit porn are actually AMPLIFIED within the first few weeks to a few months. That is to say you become worse off than when you started. Now this can be a bit bearable if only your conscience didn’t scream to you unstoppably “You see, it does not work, it can’t work! Don’t bother. You are even worse off than when you started, no other way, quit.”

In practice, extremely few people do successfully get past this stage. And yes, it is a stage - a difficult one that lasts anywhere from week one to 3 months to 2 years. I have documented this entire process and the attitude needed to conquer it here in this thread - and there is no point of repeating it. But in summary, to successfully conquer porn addiction using your will power(and it will be feeble at the start), you will need extensive knowledge and information of the stages involved in the recovery and you will have to allocate enough time to the endeavor, usually a minimum of 3 months but around 2 years (yes years) is ideal. You will also need to get rid of all forms of porn on your computer, enable safe search, clear all bookmarks and even establish physical barriers to accessing porn like no laptop past 6pm AND the weekends and holidays and if you normally abuse your phone as a pornography accessory instead of the many millions of useful information you could be reading, ditch it immediately and get one without internet access.

This combo of mental and physical ammo is a mandatory arsenal alongside with sufficient time allocated to the pursuit usually three months to two years.

Now is it worth it?
Quitting smoking is hard work to the smoker but easy sail for everyone else. The same with quitting porn and masturbation - it is hard to the addict and a non-issue to everyone else. The smoker complains of breath problems and looming cancer while to everyone else everything functions normally. The porn addict suffers erectile disorders and chronic depression while to non-addicts these problems do not occur.

A smoker might say that he knows of a non-smoker who is also unhealthy and in pure idiocy use that as justification to continue with the addictive habit but we all know that that is comparing apples to oranges – and that the addict has in fact fallen prisoner of his own prison. The same porn mind might convince its addict that there are men who have erectile dysfunctions and yet don’t consume porn. But that again is unequal grounds comparison. All things equal the addict is worse off and sits in an even more precarious position because first he is entrapped and second his condition worsens with passing time.

And so the answer the question "is quitting porn and masturbation worth it?", Yes a hundred fold.

Is it hard? - No, not after a few months.

Does one miss porn and jerking off? No – it is a non issue after a few years.

[GettingBig2017]

Day 18 complete!

[GettingBig2017]

Day 19 complete!

[blkrider]

Day 1 lets try again

[GettingBig2017]

Day 20 complete!

[Hanginthere2018]

46 days NO PORN!. Im still a dog though. Just a dog who doesn't watch porn LOL.
Ive read somewhere it takes about 90 days to get your brain closer to baseline. Is this true?
What sort of benefits can we expect long term? Thank you all and stick with it.

[snowmannn]

Day 1.

Hey everyone. I've been getting better and better (i.e. porn is weakening its grasp on my sexuality, and periods without porn are getting longer and longer. However, I want this to be permanent.

Let's do this thing.

[SmugLion]

Day 24 without porn