Things that REALLY helped me quit porn

This past month I’ve gone all in to finally quit porn and hopefully I can help you guys out with what I’ve done. The longest I’ve been without it would probably be 6 months or so but I want it to never happen again. If you guys have any questions or something I’d love to help anyone out if I can to get over porn as well. I’m 20 btw. The biggest thing that I’ve done is delete some social media apps. I know it totally sucks to do this but it helps. I still have Snapchat but I deleted tik tok and instagram. This is because I would always see some sort of video or picture of some chick and then it just stuck in my mind until I relapsed. Of course you can just try and change the algorithm so you don’t get recommended these videos, but trust me, it doesn’t fully work. I tried the same thing but no matter what I would eventually see something that would trigger my urge. It’s very hard to keep your algorithm clean for a long time. I did it for a good while and all my instagram had was religious posts and whatnot but eventually it did take a turn. So I figured enough is enough, I needa man up and just delete it so there’s no chance it happens again. And yeah you won’t see what videos your friends send u and whatnot but whatever it’s worth it man. Another thing I’ve done is avoid bringing my phone to the bathroom. I would always relapse when I brought my phone with me when I took a shower bc that’s when I would always do it. Any time I got in the shower the thought of porn would always hit my mind, so I just stopped bringing my phone with me, no matter how strong I thought I was. Filling my day up with things to do also helped me keep it off my mind. Going to the gym, reading, watching good YouTube videos, movies, hanging with friends. Really just try to do anything to fill up your day when u have free time to prevent relapsing. A YouTube video I watched that helped me was a video by jak piggott about 2 weeks ago about his life story quitting porn. It’s really good and I highly recommend it. Lastly I would say do some research on why porn is so bad for you because it has totally impacted my life, mostly my social skills. Use the website blocker this app provides as well, it’s so worth it and you get it with the app so why not use it man. Getting closer to God also helped me a lot, and I know everyone has different beliefs and whatnot and I respect that but if you are open to it, I would recommend building your relationship with God. I think I’ve done enough yappin lol, good luck brother and God bless.