Overcoming porn addiction is a hard task. Since online pornography is so broadly available and accessible means that pornography is only a click away. That porn can be viewed anonymously makes it easy for its use to stay secret.
Many addicts struggle in isolation with overcoming porn addiction and they regularly do not know where to start. Here are a number of my most commonly used tools and hints that I love sharing with addicts to assist them to overcome their porn habit.
Recovery tools will assist you to learn more about yourself and your recovery and equip you with the proper motivation needed to overcome your addiction.
1- Keeping a Diary:
You might think it’s a dumb idea, but I definitely disagree. I tried it myself and it’s a game changer.
Spending 10 minutes daily recording your daily events; how was your mood, how bad were your urges & triggers and how did you overcome them, etc.. can help you during your quitting journey and can boost your motivation level.
Besides it makes you stronger to relapsing, especially after you came a long way with your continuous streak, whenever you feel your brain is trying to convince you to break your streak, you will feel terrible after you see how far you went through your journey and relapsing will make you start from point zero, again!
You can make your own sketch diary if you like it the old way,
or you can use daily journal applications, there are dozens of these apps.
But I do recommend Fortify (Android/IOS) because it’s dedicated to pornography addicts. And it really works!
If you like a general mood tracker and daily journal, as I said before there are dozens, the most common one is Daylio (Android/IOS).
2- Porn Blockers (with Accountability feature):
Porn blockers are very useful during your recovery because standing against urges and cravings is a hard stage “especially at the beginnings”, but it becomes a lot easier with software to watch your back during times of weakness, especially with software that contains “Accountability Feature” that sends a report to your friend or family that expose your browsing history.
If you are attempting to kick the porn habit, research shows that it’s nearly impossible to simply stop addiction, without some assistance. We determined the best porn addiction apps and blockers to make your journey just a little bit easier.
You can view our post about the Best porn blockers to read our reviews.
3- Knowing your goals:
You can’t quit any habit if you are not sure why you are quitting it in the first place, you have to decide your “why?” before starting your quitting journey.
Feel free to read my story, and know more about: “Levels of pornography addiction” and “The effects of porn addiction” to know how pornography consumes you and how bad can it be.
It’s never too late to BeFapless!
