To quit porn, go cold turkey if you can. If not, cut back on TikTok, Instagram, and other high-stimulus apps first to give your brain breathing room. Also eliminate sugar and alcohol, which spike dopamine and weaken your ability to resist cravings.
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Well, if I want— if a kid wanted to say, I want to stop watching porn, okay, cool. I'd tell him, great, going cold turkey is gonna be difficult. If you can do it, do it by all means. That's the shortest path there. Yeah, but if you can't, if you're struggling, cut back your TikTok use, cut back your social media use, cut back your Instagram use, right? Cut these things down to give your brain more breathing room. You'll find that this will be much easier. The Pornhub stuff will be much easier because you're giving yourself a little bit more resilience. And brain power to work with by reducing these ones too. And then cut out sugary foods, cut out alcohol, right? Cut out these things that give you like an immediate spike reward for doing nothing.