Addiction: The Ultimate Guide To Overcome an Addiction

By Justin Khä

Hey! I didn't write this book to waste your time.

I know… You are reading this book description because you are interested in how to overcome an Addiction. Okay?

Did you know that Time is the rarest resource in life?

This book is not filled with "bla bla bla"… It's straight to the point so that anyone can benefit from it.

It explores different types of addictions and ways to overcome them.

Of course, some tactics and technics to quit addiction seem to be impossible to apply. They take hours, energy and efforts but once you apply them, you get your freedom. This book shows you how to take care of yourself in order to be free from addiction. Did you know that anyone can overcome any types of addiction?

Even if you are not an addict, you can help others because this book gives you everything you need in order to help yourself and others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Justin Khä
• Release date: Jul 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201957858

Book preview

Chapter 1: This is How Anyone Can Stop a Masturbation Addiction

Seeking Help

1. Seek help. Masturbation is healthy. Masturbating often doesn't necessarily mean you're addicted. If you can't control your thoughts or urges or if masturbation is affecting school or work, get help. Remember that many people have similar issues. Most people will consider seeking help brave.

2. See a doctor. Counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists all treat addiction. Start by seeing a local therapist, who can assess your addiction and refer you to specialists if needed.

3. Tell your therapist how masturbation affects you. Some people masturbate to avoid feelings, emotions, and problems. Discuss the impact of masturbation with your therapist.

•  Feeling comfortable with your therapist may take a few sessions. Normal. Don't rush.

•  Tell your therapist if masturbation makes you feel empty, sad, or angry. They can help you identify feelings.

4. Discuss treatments. Some consider masturbation addiction a sex addiction. Your therapist may prescribe medication and CBT to help you.

Keeping Busy

1. Find a new hobby. Engage in activities. You'll have a go-to distraction next time you're tempted to masturbate. Try these:

Be imaginative. Monks and sages have relied on sublimating sexual urges for centuries. Start writing, learn to play an instrument, paint, or draw to feel productive.

•  Exercise. Sporting excellence requires discipline and persistence. Run, swim, or play soccer, football, basketball, or tennis. Any form of exercise will relieve tension, make you happier, and improve your physicality. Yoga can help you relax and reduce masturbation urges.

•  Eat well. Fruits and vegetables have healthy effects on the body and provide nutrients to boost energy. Oysters, salmon, chili peppers, coffee, avocados, bananas, and chocolate are aphrodisiacs.

•  Develop a skill or hobby. Learning something difficult can refocus your brain on delayed gratification, rather than masturbation. Try woodworking, archery, baking, public speaking, or gardening.

•  Volunteer. Work at a shelter, tutor low-income students, clean up blighted areas, or raise money for a good cause. Helping others will make you feel altruistic and reduce distractions.

•  Rest. Masturbation urges can be strong, so be prepared. Sleep for 8 hours. Set an alarm if you forget to go to bed early.

2. Plan to avoid masturbating at your usual times. Before bed or in the shower, resist the urge to masturbate. Late at night, do push-ups until you're too tired to do anything but sleep. If you find shower time too tempting, use ice cold water only; you won't want to stay long, saving you time and water.

•  If you always masturbate after school, have a plan to avoid boredom. If you have nothing to do, you may have sexual thoughts. Busy or tired people find it easier to avoid masturbation.

•  If you're tempted to masturbate in the morning, sleep with more than one layer of clothing.

3. Avoid isolation. Find ways to socialize if you masturbate because you're lonely. Join as many clubs or activities as possible, accept and give more invitations, and make more friends. Ask a friend to set you up or join an online dating site to date.

•  Limit your home alone time. Go for a walk or do your homework in a coffee shop if you masturbate an hour or two before your parents get home.

•  Even if your friends are busy, going out in public can reduce your urge to masturbate. Watch the game at a sports bar instead of at home. Even when you're alone, you won't have time to masturbate.

4. Stop watching porn online. You may be masturbating so much because you can get porn quickly. If you don't have the willpower to stop looking at porn, you may need to take other steps.

•  Install porn-blocking software. Having the blocking function pop up will remind you of your priorities. Type a random password in a text file, copy and paste it when you enter your password, then delete the file. You won't know your porn-password. blocker's This keeps you strong and avoids struggle.

•  If you tend to masturbate while viewing porn, move your computer to a public room.

•  Discard any porn you own (as soon as possible).

5. Remain patient. Stopping masturbation won't happen overnight. You may make mistakes or relapse during the process. The real struggle is persevering, so vow now not to let small mistakes deter you. Create rewards. Reward good behavior to stay motivated. If you can go two weeks without masturbating, reward yourself with a game or ice cream.

Mindset

Stop self-punishment. Humans masturbate. 95% of males and 89% of females admit to masturbating, according to studies. All ages and genders can masturbate healthily.

Don't believe masturbation myths. Stop masturbating for personal and moral reasons, not health reasons. Masturbation won't hurt:

•  Masturbation doesn't cause infertility, early ejaculation, or impotence.

•  Masturbation won't cause madness.

•  Masturbation won't cause blindness or floaters.

•  Masturbation won't increase urination.

•  Masturbation doesn't affect facial hair, growth, facial features, kidneys, testicles, skin, or major physical issues! Myths.

Believe things will improve. If you believe you can stop masturbating, you will. Maybe you just want to limit your masturbation to once or twice a day. Also fine. If you believe you can win, you'll be more successful than if you doubt yourself.

Relapses are possible. It's normal during recovery. Don't quit. Have faith.

Chapter 2: This is How Anyone Can Control Their Urge to Masturbate

Avoiding Masturbation Triggers

1. Avoid arousal triggers. Thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and situations can trigger masturbation. Triggers include attractive people, body parts, clothing, animals, or inanimate objects. Sounds, smells, or other sensory or mental stimulation can be triggers. By reducing these triggers, you may be less likely to masturbate.

Make a mental or written list of your masturbation triggers. This list could include pornography, sex fantasies, sex-related items, stress, anxiety, or trouble sleeping.

2. Avoid porn. You can control some triggers, like looking at aroused objects, pictures, or videos. Removing these items can reduce unintentional arousal and masturbation urges.

•  DVDs, magazines, pictures, posters, sculptures, and romance novels that are pornographic.

•  Avoid strip-clubs, brothels, and streets frequented by prostitutes.

3. Hide sex-objects. Any object that reminds you of sexual intercourse or masturbation can cause arousal and masturbation. Hide triggering sex objects. Condoms, lubrication (jelly or lotion), vibrators, dildos, sexy outfits, and anything else that could trigger masturbation.

4. Reduce Internet use. Some people struggle with online porn. This can be very arousing and lead to masturbation.

Your internet/cable service can limit your access to pornographic websites on your computer or TV. Internet or cable providers should know. You don't have to admit your problem because many parents use these services to restrict their children's internet and TV access.

Distract yourself

1. Try again. Day and night, keep busy. Focus on non-sexual activities. Individuals vary. Try playing video games, watching a (non-sexual) movie, going for a walk, window shopping, playing with a pet, reading a book, playing an instrument, creating art (painting, coloring, sculpting), and writing in a journal.

2. Do your job. Our obligations can help us focus on what's important (money, food, shelter, education, etc) (masturbation). Less free time reduces your desire and ability to masturbate because it becomes impractical. Without time, you may not do it.

List daily tasks. Complete work or school projects, shop, clean bedroom, pay bills, practice guitar, and exercise. When you want to masturbate, tell yourself, I can't masturbate now. Today is the day.

3. Change your surroundings. Being alone or in your bedroom can make you want to masturbate. Changing your environment may reduce your urge to masturbate in public, which is likely inappropriate and illegal.

•  If you want to masturbate, walk or drive. You may not masturbate in public. It can also keep you from masturbating.

•  Have a friend visit your family. Masturbating in public may be difficult.

4. Exercise reduces sexual desire. If you masturbate to relieve stress, exercise is a healthy alternative because it releases endorphins in your brain. Try skateboarding, swimming, hiking, biking, bowling, jumping-rope, dancing, aerobics, or yoga.

5. Consider the downsides. Visualize the negative effects of excessive masturbation, such as impaired sexual function, depression, relationship dissatisfaction, high blood pressure, and swollen, painful prostate. Overuse of vibrators can cause genital numbness, irritation, cuts, or tears.

List your masturbation's negative effects. This list may include work or school problems and relationship issues.

6. Limits. Try to avoid masturbating when it's inappropriate. This includes when you and your partner have planned intercourse soon, when you are not in private, when you need to be productive, or when you must save sperm for a medical test.

7. Set personal goals. Others may want to reduce the amount of time they spend masturbating for religious or cultural reasons.

While masturbating, time passes quickly. Know when you have work, school, etc. If you don't have time, postpone masturbation.

Control your sleep environment

1. Only sleep in bed. Since your bedroom and bed are likely the most frequented areas for masturbation, it's important to control this environment, especially sleep and what you do in your bedroom.

•  Don't read, watch TV, or use the computer in bed.

•  Remain standing or seated (during the day).

2. Have a full bladder. The body can confuse urination with sex/masturbation. Before bed and when you wake up, use the bathroom. If you need to urinate, do so immediately.

3. Sleep when tired. So you won't spend time in bed trying to fall asleep. If you can't sleep, drink milk before bed.

•  Try to sleep and rise early. Staying up late increases boredom and masturbation.

•  Instead of masturbating to relax at night, try deep breathing. Simply breathe slowly through your nose and mouth until you fall asleep.

4. Side-sleep. This may help reduce your urge because you'll be less aroused. Most masturbation happens supine or prone.

5. Get up early. Get out of bed as soon as you wake up to avoid lying in bed awake. Masturbation is likely then.

Chapter 3: Do You Want To Stop Thinking About Sex?

Avoiding Triggers

1. Know trigger categories. While it's easy to identify specific or situational triggers, try to