Stop Porn Addiction

You need help to stop porn addiction. If it were something you could have done by yourself, you already would have. Here are the answers you’ve been looking for.

Pornography has been around a long time, but, as you know, the internet age has changed everything. Pornographers, those who peddle porn, earn incredible profits at the expense of their victims.

Adding to the problem, we live in a sexualized world. Advertisements and entertainment use sex to sell. The world promotes promiscuity. It seems like everything is working against anyone trying to stop porn addiction.

Perhaps for you the struggle has seemed overwhelming. This site is all about helping you to stop looking at porn.

Finding this site proves you’re not a quitter! Seeking for help not only shows your commitment to overcoming porn addiction, but that you’re willing to put forth effort--to keep trying.

The road to addiction recovery is not very complicated, but it does require effort. It is doable. Everyday people just like you are moving permanently away from their addiction. Take hope and courage from that!

The key to overcoming addiction lies in rewiring the brain, in replacing old habits with new ones.

Medical science is uncovering how the brain works to overcome addiction. Habits are physical pathways developed in the brain. By neglecting old habits, and by establishing new ones, old habits die away.

You can’t undo an addiction, or an old stubborn habit, by constantly thinking about it, even if what you’re trying to think about is overcoming it. You must replace that thinking with new thinking.

Click here to learn about how changing your thoughts leads to new and better habits.

How the brain develop habits

The average brain “thinks” about 70,000 thoughts a day. Your brain generates more electrical impulses in a day than all the telephones in the world!

With so much to do, the brain has to be very efficient. It uses the least energy possible in establishing and routing its connections. When an action is repeated, the brain reinforces the process so that it is easier and easier to be repeated.

Additionally, actions produce “rewards” that deepen or further establish specific processes in the brain. The reward is a feeling of delight, pleasure or satisfaction that comes as chemicals, such as dopamine, are released.

The brain establishes a kind of priority system so that often-repeated acts are quickly and easily accomplished in order that the desired rewards can be felt. It has the amazing ability to continually improve at delivering what we want. You tell it what you want by what you consciously think about.

A simple example is learning to play a sport, or a musical instrument. The more you play it, the easier it becomes. The brain efficiently routes the neural pathways to increase the speed and ease of accomplishing the tasks required to get to the reward. The reward is the pleasure felt at the conclusion of the task, such as sinking a putt in golf, or making a basket in basketball, or playing the right notes on the trombone.

With pornography, the reward is the pleasure felt as the brain releases a flood of chemicals. Repeated viewing accustoms the brain to the rewards, and the neural pathways become firmly established.

Overcoming habits

Because of the brain’s priority system of easily delivering the things we repeatedly think about, the only way to remove a habit is to get the brain to move it down in priority until it “drops off the list.”

Anytime you think about your addiction, you’re feeding it. You’re keeping it on the brain’s list of priorities. Remember, the brain “knows” what you want and is very efficient at delivering it to you.

Again, you tell your brain what you want every time you think about something. So, even if your thoughts are to end your addiction, and you repeat over and over, “I won’t think pornography. I won’t, I won’t!” Guess what? All your brain knows is that you are thinking about it, so it keeps those thoughts and associated actions on its priority list.

As mentioned above, the way to stop porn addiction is to replace these habits with new ones, to put new habits on the top of the list. When your brain doesn’t see the old thoughts or actions, they fall off the list. The neural connections are literally, physically changed.

Rewiring your brain to stop porn addiction is all about NOT thinking about your addiction. It’s about starving your addiction and replacing it with new and higher level thoughts. It’s about engaging in activities that uplift you and make you a better, happier person.

The Game Plan

Here’s a game plan that really works, a proven plan that can set you up to win. You or your loved one can stop porn addiction and be on the road to recovery today.