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The Dark Side Official Quitting Thread

giving up porn for a week. I don't "need" it like before, but its a time filler I don't need and may be spirtually toxic, I will wait and see.
 
porn? if u honestly cant stop looking at porn and keep updating this thread saying omg i relapsed... maybe its time for u to go out (actually sign offline) and get laid. my heart goes out to u. people in this forum are withdrawaling from horrible benzos and or opiate habits...while having seizures/anxiety. this is the dark side here what has this world come to.
 
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i almost cut while withdrawing from the klonopin - actually was going to attempt to cut out a tattoo and realized the severity of my withdrawl and called my doc and am now on my klonopin again and tired all the time again :(

and i bought a pack of cigarettes yesterday

but i didn't cut which was really hard to quite and cutting a tattoo out would have been really dangerous and stupid

at least i didn't give up without a fight but i still feel like a failure :(
 
^Don't feel like a failure. You're not. You're going thru rough times, that's it.


I've been off crack for just over a month now.
 
adradmin said:
porn? if u honestly cant stop looking at porn and keep updating this thread saying omg i relapsed... maybe its time for u to go out (actually sign offline) and get laid. my heart goes out to u. people in this forum are withdrawaling from horrible benzos and or opiate habits...while having seizures/anxiety. this is the dark side here what has this world come to.
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i find food and porn more addicting than either marijuana or alcohol. I know to watch with painkillers because they are so good. its more about habit than addiction. And the fact I don't really care if I look at porn or not, it is not affecting me that much, if at all.

PS, I knew it was ridiculous and think even more so now, but i thought the idea of having a quitting thred was good and thoose were my two main "addictions".
 
yea true. i see where ur coming from when saying its about habits. this is an excellent topic none
theless
 
weed for me,





sylvan wanderer, forgive me for sounding insensitive, but what is it exactly about porn that has caused you problems?, i look at porn everyday and it doesn't do anything to me,
if it really is a problem, then i would suggest to masturbate when you get cravings; there is no point in watching porn if you can't get erection ,
and when you do, masturbate to a picture of a female or male you have actually seen in real life, that way you can get aroused in a more realistic sense and thus your craving for watching sluts on a computer will diminish
 
awatkins said:
sylvan wanderer, forgive me for sounding insensitive, but what is it exactly about porn that has caused you problems?, i look at porn everyday and it doesn't do anything to me,
if it really is a problem, then i would suggest to masturbate when you get cravings; there is no point in watching porn if you can't get erection ,
and when you do, masturbate to a picture of a female or male you have actually seen in real life, that way you can get aroused in a more realistic sense and thus your craving for watching sluts on a computer will diminish
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Its not a real porn addiction. Actually it wasn't an addiction, it was a habit. It was a way of not thinking about stress and stuff I had ot do and escape. TV or video games could be substituted, its just I did porn instead. Food is my only addiction, and that comes and goes. If I get myself worked into an addiction its bad, if not I can walk aroudn free food and be fine.

Even then comparitively, food isn't an addiction like what people have talked about here.

But, I Thought the thread would be a good one so I started it and thoose are the two things that I have less control over. Now, I don't really do either. It goes in cylces.
 
i wish i could quit a nicotine addiction.

and a mild hydrocodone (vicodin, lortabs, etc) and decent benzo habit.

the new semester starting is great motivation to quit the above two! i wish i had never started smoking though :p
 
slyvan, this is definitely a good thread, ideal for the darkside, just starting it off with a harmelss porn habit was quite a suprise though, you'll be fine dude keep watching your porn if it gets you off, its better than any drug addiction, thats for sure, honestly man i bet most people here have the same habit you do+ a REAL problem, i know i do, but there are people that have serious, destructive addictions, and to me (maybe its just me), saying you have a porn habit seems almost like a mockery of people that have real serious problems with dependency/addiction

i would love to quit weed but i don't see that happening or any reason to for that matter other than health reasons, i am very alone, and weed fills in that void, and its not like people don't like me, its just that the people that do are always busy when i am not, so i feel like i need something to cope with the boredom, i really like the high too ofcourse
 
I've found that porn has some things in common with drugs in terms of addiction: cravings (when you get into the habit), tolerance (needing harder porn to get the same "fix"), and a fairly intense "high" (the orgasm). I don't like the thought of porn leading to me becoming a sexual pervert, or a person who's shy around the opposite sex due to seeing them as sexual objects. Methadone maintenance has worked wonders for reducing my libido, the only worrisome thing is the rebound horniness when I inevitably reduce the dose... anyway I find that I'm a lot less nervous and jittery around the opposite sex if I haven't j/o over porn recently, and I also enjoy their company more without thinking of them bouncing up and down on my love pump.

That's all I've got to add to the discussion on porn at the moment. Congratulations to slyvan on your success beating porn.
 
booze. no more for me. im still young and i dont want to turn into an alcohoic, plus i get really bad hangovers.
and weed, too. but thats only 'cuz im on house arrest and have to. lol
 
coke and heroin..I quit both a year ago..haven't touched a needle since.although I still have frequent dreams(of using) where I wake up and my heart is pounding..and I can still feel the "rush".. :\
 
^ right there with ya babe - except not so much now and I was a smoker. but yeah - used to druve me nuts that the closest I could get to H was to dream about it and the dream would let me see all in detail, the smell the touch, but wake me up before I was allowed to feel the rush! so unjust! haha

I am planning to give up smoking cigfarettes now. I have smoked for VERY VERYVERY long time and I have to stop. I am planning it all now, problem is, I worry how successful I shall be when I do still want to smoke joints though cannot be without my weed. dont want to eat it etc.

but I have called all the hotlines, got all the bumff, waiting to afford patches and such... phew! I am not going to do it in the way that punish mysel;f - make myself cry with want for a fag - if I am crying for a ciggie then I will have one. but I only expect that to be once a day (as I am only a 7-10 smoker anyway) - however, I will have ppatches to try and go as long as I can - I hope not to touch a cigge from start date at all, but if I no, no sooner than 1 week to the hour. have one ciggie if I am crying for it, and carry on giving up until hopefully over time I wont feel the need and can wean myself off patches and cut out the once a week ciggie and so on.

and eat healthily. I shall only put on weight when I stop if I want to. I dont have to bloat out - it's only the food that I will eat instead of smoking that will do that.
 
I was clean off H for 5 whole weeks and started using when I went back to my hometown for court. I have this big felony case that keeps dragging on and I have to go back to my hometown again. I used for the past 3 weeks almost everyday IV and know when I return I will use again. It is just too hard when all of you're friends are junkies and calling you to hang out. I really need someone to talk to, PM me or talk to me on AIM milddub is my AIM.

I need advice please! I really dont want to end up where I was before, I have lost so much already because of this drug. I have delayed school and work for almost 18 months because of it! PLEASE HELP!

-weez
 
I've been clean off porn for a couple of months now and it really affects the way I perceive women... when I used to jerk off over porn all the time, women were just tits and ass to me.

I find I can value and appreciate their personalities and beauty much more now. They are people, they are beautiful, and they're not mere sexual objects made to be fucked and cummed on. I think giving up porn will improve my chances of getting a g/f after years without, once I find somewhere I can meet and get to know ladies.

On a final note, everyone needs to come every so often; for most men it's several times a week. On benzos or opiates this is not an issue but I think it's important to release your sexual energy in a positive way e.g. sex with a partner or masturbation over healthy fantasies (not bukkake or anything like that)
 
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