Porn is corrupting modern society. Millions of men waste hours every day jacking off to virtual women, wasting their masculine potential. They find it difficult to stop watching porn, and their lives get progressively worse.

The more you consume porn, the less you enjoy life, and the more erotic content you crave. 5-minute fapping sessions turn into 30-minute ones, while fapping 3-4 times a week increases to jacking off multiple times a day.

Month by month, you slowly lose control over your life, as the desires for cheap sexual stimuli keep getting stronger and stronger. If a man puts no effort into stopping this habit, it can turn into a downward spiral of depression, misery, anxiety, and mental illness.

Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be this way. No matter where you currently are, you can stop watching porn for good and reclaim control over your life.

In this article, I’ll give you 9 strategies that will help you stop watching porn, develop better habits, and improve your emotional state. Let’s begin.

9 Strategies to Stop Watching Porn

Before we begin, I want to clarify one thing: you won’t be able to quit porn instantly. Despite what the NoFap YouTubers tell you, you won’t lose all benefits once you relapse, and you won’t be able to levitate after 90 days of abstaining.

We’ll discuss this and other false narratives of NoFap later in the article. The most important thing you should do now is find goals to focus on.

1: Find Worthy Goals to Pursue

Yes, you must do this step to succeed in quitting porn. If you simply try not to fap for 90 days straight like the mainstream narrative tells you to do, you won’t quit. You’ll get tons of intrusive thoughts, and inevitably run out of willpower each time.

When you focus on not doing something, you’re being passive. You merely react to outside circumstances and have yourself at their mercy. When you, however, shift your focus to pursuing certain goals, you become proactive and determine your actions.

Find your masculine purpose, and figure out what work you want to do. Set specific, measurable goals that will improve all spheres of your life.

For example, you can set a goal of gaining 5 kilograms of weight by the end of 6 months, practicing a hobby like woodcrafting for 200 hours, or starting a new website, like I did.

Whatever you want to do, just do it. Create a good, measurable, accurate goal like the ones I offered above, and dedicate at least 1 hour a day to achieving them. You’ll have much less thoughts about watching porn, as your mind will be occupied with doing a useful activity.

2: Limit Social Media Usage to Stop Watching Porn

Most modern social media content is softcore porn. When you go on Instagram or TikTok, it’s extremely easy to find half-naked, often underage girls who twerk on camera for thousands of thirsty men to see.

Sure, not all social media content is bad, and if you use social media correctly, you can get tons of benefits out of it. However, if you’re serious about quitting porn, you need to stop constant doom scrolling.

Limit the time you spend on social media, especially TikTok and Instagram, to 1 hour a day. Download mods that disable the feed and block explicit content. If you don’t like these platforms anyway, delete them from your phone along with your accounts.

The less you look at sexual content, the fewer temptations you get. Spend more time without looking at screens, and dedicate the hours you’ve spent on social media to the goals you’ve created in Strategy 1.

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3: Spend More Time in Nature

People often get urges to jack off to porn when they have nothing to do or experience negative emotions. They subconsciously turn to porn as a way of comforting themselves and instantly improving their mood.

There is a healthier alternative to porn, though. We are the children of Nature, and to maintain mental health, we need to feel connected with it.

Spend at least 15 minutes a day outside and enjoy the simple things outdoors. Listen to birds singing, watch the plants react to wind, or observe how animals act and live in your neighborhood.

Life is short, and we need to spend most of it enjoying our existence. Nature erases negative thoughts, immerses you in the Present moment, and helps to relax when life seems overwhelming.

If you don’t want to simply sit in the park, you can go out for a cup of coffee with a friend or explore places you haven’t visited before. I know, it’s hard to go outside when you haven’t done it in weeks, but you should still stop making excuses and take steps to change.

4: Develop Good Habits to Stop Watching Porn

Working on goals and walking in nature are nice, but most people can’t do these things all day long. That is why you also need to build good habits to fill up your free time.

There are different good habits you can do, but, in my experience, these are the best ones:

• Reading
• Meditating
• Weightlifting
• Deep work
• Learning a new skill or language
• Gratitude journaling
• Boxing

Each and every one of them has great benefits for you. Weightlifting will increase your muscle mass and energy, gratitude journaling will improve your mood, and deep work will help you complete more in less time.

Do not immediately rush to spend 4 hours in the gym daily, or learn Japanese for 40 hours a week. When it comes to building habits, consistency beats intensity.

Start by lifting weights for 30 minutes 3 times a week, writing 3 gratitude statements, and learning a language for 15 minutes. Once you get comfortable with these numbers, increase the load and spend more time on each habit to strengthen them.

To strengthen the habits even more, you should change the triggers and rewards.

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5: Change the Habit Triggers

In case you’re wondering what habit triggers are, they are objects and entities in the environment that pressure us into doing certain actions and behaviors.

If your house is full of junk food, cigarette packs, and substances, you will keep relapsing, even if you use all of your willpower. The truth is that willpower doesn’t help in defeating the addictions, as it loses to temptations 90% of the time.

The game isn’t fair. To win it, you need to play unfairly and eliminate all chances of temptations appearing.

Once again, quit TikTok and Instagram, download a porn blocker, filter out explicit content, and tell Google and YouTube to stop recommending you sexualized content.

Aside from that, create positive triggers that will help you build the good habits mentioned above. These triggers will remind you about positive behaviors and encourage you to do them when you’re bored.

Buy a pair of dumbbells, and put them in a visible place to remind yourself of weightlifting. Fill your fridge with healthy, single-ingredient foods. Put a laptop, papers, and a pen on the desk to remind yourself of deep work. Buy books and put them on a shelf to remind you of reading.

In short, do everything you can to change your environment and make it work for you instead of against you.

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6: Educate Yourself About Porn’s Effects

If you’re still reading this article, you’re determined to quit porn and are serious about implementing the strategies I’m offering you.

No matter how much porn has affected your life, it has tons of negative effects you don’t even know about.

According to BlockerX, viewing porn regularly decreases your competitive drive, libido and can even lead to erectile dysfunction, meaning that your manhood won’t get hard anymore.

Additionally, masturbating to porn several times a day accelerates the addiction and makes you neglect important responsibilities, like work, family, and friendships.

Read about the negative effects of porn on your brain, and associate this habit with pain, suffering, and long-lasting problems. This way, you’ll stay away from it and think twice each time you want to fap again.

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7: Meditate Daily to Stop Watching Porn

To quit watching porn, it’s important to not only control the environment, but your own mind too. Believe it or not, but your thoughts don’t have to control you. You can control them if you develop the skill of mindfulness.

Mindfulness is the ability to be in the Present moment and control thoughts by choosing to react or ignore them. The more mindful you are, the fewer negative thoughts you have, and hence, the fewer temptations to watch porn you have.

The fastest and most effective way to cultivate mindfulness is by meditating daily. After waking up, set a 10-20 minute timer, and observe your breathing.

Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale. If a thought appears, do not judge or fight it. Instead, observe it without putting mental labels, and shift your focus back to breathing.

Meditating can bring great results after just a month of starting. Now only will you find it easier to focus, complete tasks, and be at peace, but you’ll also find that your mind isn’t controlling you anymore. You are the one in control.

So, do not hesitate, and try this habit out immediately after you finish. It will be uncomfortable at first, but you will get used to it and experience its positive effects yourself.

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8: Use a Special Breathing Technique

It’s about time I offer you a solution that no one on the Internet has written about. Mainstream blogs and websites all tell you to simply install a porn blocker, pay $500 for a therapist who doesn’t care about you, and call it a day.

But the breathing technique I’m about to offer you can help you deal with temptations right in the moment. This is especially helpful if you’ve accidentally seen sexualized content and have a strong urge to free your semen.

Whenever you feel intense urges, close your eyes and breathe as deeply as possible. Visualize and feel sexual energy rising up to the heart from your testicles, and hold it in for a few seconds. Then, exhale, and feel this energy spread throughout your whole body from the heart.

Once you feel that extra source of energy, thank women of the world for giving you it, and do something productive. Use the sexual drive to crush it in the gym, or complete the project with speed and quality that you never thought were possible.

You’re probably skeptical of this strategy and question whether it actually works or not. I won’t provide any evidence here, since the best proof in this situation is experience. Shut off your brain, and accumulate sexual energy with this method the next time you have an urge.

9: Stop Focusing on NoFap

Finally, the last strategy I can provide you is to stop focusing on NoFap. Many guys who try to quit porn for the first time make the mistake of obsessing over this challenge and tying their sense of self-worth to how long their streak is.

While NoFap is a great movement that has good intentions of helping people in trouble, it has flaws. People who follow NoFap present it in a deceiving way, saying that it will fix all life problems of their audience, and that if they break their streak once, they’ll lose all benefits.

Such statements create paranoia and unhealthy obsession in young men, forcing them to obsess over the challenge and feel intense guilt whenever they relapse.

Listen. If you’re that person who constantly consumes NoFap content and obsesses over their streak, you need to stop. Seriously.

The more you focus on trying to quit, the more you identify yourself with the addiction, and see yourself as the addicted person. You’ll relapse over and over again and feel more and more guilt for not being able to quit.

Think less about NoFap, forget that masturbation exists, and stop counting your streak. Live as if pornographic content never existed, and you’ll stop watching porn without trouble.

Additional Tips to Stop Watching Porn

There are some other tips I can give you to help you quit porn and forget about this evil habit. Here they are:

• Forgive yourself for relapsing. Guilt is the worst emotion you can possibly feel. It is incredibly destructive and deals great damage to self-esteem. Whenever you relapse, remember that you are a human and can make mistakes from time to time. Instead of beating yourself up, acknowledge your mistakes, learn from them, and shift focus back to pursuing goals.
• Talk to people more. Porn addiction often forces its readers to stop interacting with others out of shame and guilt. Solitude is good for personal development, but in this case, you need to talk to people more. Text your old friends, or invite them out for a coffee. Such simple acts will help you nurture connections and overcome temptations, as they often arise from emotional deprivation.
• Learn how to deal with stress. The temptations to fap also appear when a person feels high stress and is unable to cope with it. Just like alcohol and cigarettes, porn provides a quick and pleasurable way of relaxing the nervous system. Learn healthier alternatives of managing stress, like increasing productivity through the Pareto principle, or using the 4×4 military breathing technique.

What Happens When You Stop Watching Porn

While there isn’t much research about the benefits of quitting porn, millions of men report great benefits of abstaining, such as:

• Higher testosterone levels
• Better confidence and self-esteem
• Enhanced focus and concentration
• Improved social skills
• Less brain fog and intrusive thoughts
• Higher life satisfaction

As I said before, you shouldn’t obsess over quitting and should instead embrace the personality of an ambitious man who doesn’t know what fapping is. However, you can still keep these benefits in mind for motivation and use them to make more progress.

Summary

Porn addiction is an issue that affects millions of men worldwide. It deprives them of social connection, ambition, dopamine, and testosterone, draining their energy and masculine potential as a result.

To stop watching porn and become a healthier man, use these strategies:

• Find worthy goals to pursue;
• Limit social media usage;
• Spend more time in nature;
• Develop good habits and hobbies;
• Change the habit triggers;
• Educate yourself about porn’s effects;
• Practice mindfulness and meditate;
• Use a special breathing technique;
• Stop obsessing over NoFap.

If you do all these things and implement the advice, I guarantee you: a few months from now, you’ll become a man who is proud of himself and wakes up every day with happiness and fulfillment.

Find goals, make progress towards them, spend time on meaningful things, and increase your value as a man. That is how you stop watching porn, even if you are at your lowest point.

Do not give up, and keep moving forward, brother. In the end, it will all be worth it.

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