Any easy replacments for masturbation?

Making a phone call to an old friend..

 

Sex with a real live woman.

 

@Prodigal : PMO is pleasure-pain. So you mean you want an easy way to replace pleasure-pain? Alcohol, weeds, coffee, some kind of drugs, they all give you instant pleasure, but pain after that. Any other activities are pain-pleasure, so they are difficult ... at first.
- physical: exercise
- mental: read a non-fiction book
- emotional: read a fiction book
- spiritual: mindfulness (this one is the hardest)

 

The thing is urges will hit us hard while we're trying to focus on reading. Still pain. I wish i could know an easy way but i haven't found it yet. That's why the first three days after relapse are really painful.

 

If overcoming an addiction was easy, I would argue that it was truly never an addiction in the first place.

 

I have found nothing gives the same level of pleasure, so there will be a sensation of withdrawal. I was surprised to find how much better O was with my wife when I married. It is not true that O is O is O.
If marital bliss is not an option this month, cold turkey may give the best results if you can pull it off. If you need an immediate shot of dopamine, action movies, video games, drugs, and running from the police may give a quick replacement fix. I would consider hard work and exercise as honestly earning our dopamine.

 

Addiction is a condition where we compulsively do something that we know is ultimately bad for us.
Passion is something we feel we need to pursue because it ultimately helps us to feel better about ourselves and the world we live in.
Passionately choose to fight being addicted to the things that are harmful to us. This is the way.

 

Find a hobby that has endless potential. For me it's ethical hacking

 

Try this one when urges come... help you not to touch your di*k even when you want to...

 

You cannot turn over the face from reality bud..
Stay Strong.
May this glove be with you.
Peace.

 

Don't fight urges, if you've already made your descion, then that's it. If an urge comes, don't care about it and don't try and get out of it. You logically know PMO is bad.. always bad. Never will it logically make sense to do it. Therefore, if you follow the logic of it you won't need to give a rip about any urges you get.

 

Push ups, reading a book, Duolingo(it's great to be bilingual!)

 

I have found that finding a hobby to distract you helps a lot. For example I have been doing some woodworking recently hoping to distract myself.