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Why does everyone shill the easy peasy method?
I've read it and it felt like it was written in 2010 with the target audience being a 30 year old man, with a wife and kids, who goons maybe 3 times a week.
>If you’re forwarded a URL by a friend, take pride in saying, “I’m happy to say I don’t need that anymore.” This will hurt them, but when they see it isn’t bothering you they’ll be halfway to joining you.
>Why not then declare your quitting to friends and family? Well, it’ll make you a proud ex-addict or ex-user, not an elated and happy non-user. It might scare your partner a bit since they may see this as an scheme to have more sex, in a sort of New Age way. They may also fear you turning into a sex machine. It’s hard to explain unless they’re open-minded.
Literally NO ONE does this
It keeps repeating the same bullshit for like 20 chapters
>yeah bro the secret truth that absolutely no one has ever said is that porn is heckin' bad for you and you need to stop believing its good!!!!11
No shit, there is not a single person nowadays (aside from redditors) who believes porn is in any way good.
And it keeps talking about how doing it with just your willpower is bad because youre gonna think youre missing out (no one thinks that) while the method they recommend is saying "i will NEVER goon again" (even doe the average porn addict has already said that to himself a hundred times) and then doing it with just your willpower while telling yourself "im not a porn addict!!" whenever you think about porn, genius.
The most retarded part is the chapter where the book tells you to go on a porn site while repeating in your head "im no longer a porn addict i dont have to watch this!!!", even though the whole time the book was advising against taking a peak or checking if you can resist the urges. I actually did this and one video caught my eye, i tried to scroll past it but i failed and gooned for the second time that day, gooning twice in one day had not happened to me in atleast a year. This advice is like giving a heroine addict a syringe with heroine and telling him not to do it.
It might be the worst book ive ever read because it didnt help me in any way and actually made me goon one more time.
№76140[Quote]
>>76138 (OP)The book is retarded because Hackauthor2 is full of himself and has some kind of savior complex. There's a shorter remake of the book that I think is a lot better:
https://burgeonbook.vercel.app/Also there's another (older) short remake that I found pretty helpful.
The truth is is that these "steps to quitting" can only be effective if you have intrinsic motivation to quit. Otherwise it makes more sense to keep gooning.
I don't know your circumstances, but maybe reflect on your life and ask yourself where you want to be in 5 years, and think of ways you can achieve that. I know this sounds generic, and it is because most self help advice is bullshit that only worked with the person that wrote the "advice" in the first place.
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idunno dude who cares
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The best part is that it INSISTS on you reading the whole fucking thing, including massive nothing burgers, even though the entire book can be summed up in a few sentences.
Here's something that I think works best, assuming that you have at least a bit of money to cough up:
>Take a 2 week to 1 month trip somewhere (a month works best THOUGH). It doesn't have to be anything spectacular, but as long as you can do anything besides sitting and rotting on your phone you're good.>If you have any porn accounts or anything saved DELETE IT BEFORE THE TRIP. This step works best if you're only logged in on your PC but not on your phone. If you have real trust issues or you know you're going to go back into your old habits, look into DNS blocking, and either add a blocklist through your router (recommended), or by modifying the hosts.txt file if you're on Windows (slower for your pc). I can recommend this one https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists?tab=readme-ov-file#nsfw>Since you will probably take your phone, imagine that a glowie is actively looking at what you're watching. Every porn site, video and image is used to profile you and spy on you. Think of this every time you want to do it. (If you don't care, just buy one of those shitty Nokia reboots for 50 dollars and use that for the duration of your trip)>Try occupying yourself with other activities at the trip. Try having fun basically. Friends help with this, but this is /r9k/. Don't kid yourself.>After some time, you'd just start enjoying life. Not thinking about wanting to goon but genuinely being in the moment and having fun.>After you come back, you should be able to be goonfree mentally.I hope this helps someone.
№76157[Quote]
>>76138 (OP)>Why does everyone shill the easy peasy method?Because it worked for them. Why do you think? There are problems with and stupidities in the book and there are certainly better books on addiction, but most of this post is just misconstruing random parts of the easy peasy method.