Admit the problem

I've come to admit that my addiction wasn't necessarily masturbation, it was really porn. Porn provoked masturbation, but alone if not stimulated I don't really think of masturbating unless I seek porn.

The steps I've taken were to reduce the exposure to porn as much as I could, that was to stay away from my computer as much as I could, and entertain myself doing other activities that can help me stay away from it.

At the moment I have been unable to be completely PMO free for a long period of time, I may go a few days without watching porn but then I end up browsing for it, and once a week end up masturbating.

I'm trying to set short goals like, at first, it was to PMO once every few days now it's up to once a week.

I want to be free of PMO eventually, but it looks like it won't be over night that I'll be able to just stop all together.

Next Monday I will ask myself if I can go another week without it, and if the answer is yes I will do my best to hold off until the Monday that comes next, if on that next Monday I can go another then I can go forward.

To forbid myself of stopping at once, of trying to stop all together has been my downfall, and each time I say it's gonna be gone for good I end up relapsing, knowing myself I can only do this one step at a time.

Is this a good approach? I used to PMO 3 or 5 times a day for hours every day, I'm down to once a week. I think it's progress but I'm not sure if I'll ever stop all together, maybe eventually it'll be once a month, then once every few months, then once a year, unless by that time it won't even be a problem for me to stop all together.

I just get really lonely and crave it too strongly to stop all at once.