What's your opinion on cam sites ?

As someone who suffered a serious addiction to cam sites (spent $4-$5 per year for a couple of years) I can tell you that the attraction of it is having a "real" girl to watch and "do stuff" with. For me it was simply part of the porn addiction and the escalation that occurred with it. I never would have thought I would fall for the cam girls and after every session I would think, "what are you doing, there is so much free stuff out there, just find new videos to watch." My experience was that I found a few girls that knew how to work me and I was a sucker for it. There was one girl who I would tell her all the time i loved her and she was going to move to the USA and be with me because she loved me too. Once I heard that it was no longer group private sessions with her, but exclusive sessions so it was just me and her and at the time I gladly paid more for that. Yes the rational side of my brain knew she was playing me for the money, but the addicted side of the brain did not care. I look back and think the head on my shoulder was definitely not in control. I also look at back at some of the things I did and am just shocked at how messed up I was from porn.

I'm thankful to say that the last time I did a cam session was early September and feel that I am free of the cam addiction. But I am realistic and know I can never go back to those cam sites or I might be in for a huge relapse.

Here are the things I did to quit the cam girls, and it may not work for everyone but has worked for me:
1. Changed the password to some sort random words and numbers I will never remember
2. Changed my e-mail to a fake e-mail account. I then clicked on the reset password function in hopes that the site would send an e-mail and it would bounce back to them and they would delete the account.
NOTE: I realize I could easily go back and create a new account to get past steps 1 and 2, but I look at it that by not creating a new account, is part of my recovery.
3. I put a post it note on my computer with just 4000-5000 written on it as a reminder of what I spent and i could easily look at it as a reminder. And I think about what I could have done with that money, or even how much better my bank account would be with that money in it.
4. I put the charges for the cam site on a credit card I never used for anything else so I sometimes would log into my account see the $0.00 balance and think about how good that feels to see it.
5. I started journaling in the past and captured the immediate thoughts before and after cam sessions, so I can go back and read those and remember that state of mind and not want to get back to it.
6. Visit this site when I felt the urge to watch cam girls and spend some time on the message boards to distract myself.

Cam addiction is not easy to over come because I fooled myself into thinking I had a real connection with these girls. I admit it I sometimes wonder if my favorites are still camming and every once in a while i have the thought to check on them. But I know that if I did that I would just be setting myself up for a huge relapse and definitely don't want to do that. And I know they probably are still camming, they were doing it before I discovered them, so no reason to think they quit.