What would it take to make you stop using porn and other artificial stimulation?

Your wife finding out?
Prison?
Losing your job?
Never seeing your kids again?
Never having a meaningful relationship again?

Or maybe just finding a greater joy than porn?

What would it take?

If you are talking about a rock bottom moment, I would say having to go to a clinic to get tested for STDs. Embarrassing, shameful. Oh how I hurt my wife.

I haven?t beat this thing but that was my rock bottom.

Peace

For me it was a realization that I was powerless to improve anything else in my life until I got over porn.  Relationships, work, hobbies, my spiritual life especially... they all had peaked (at very low places) and weren't going to go anywhere until I made myself a new person.

Thanks be to God I didn't have any big dramatic moments.  If I had slid further into the porn world... that is, completely thrown the idea of rebooting to the wind, I probably would have been thinking about getting into hookup stuff, especially fetish based.  But, that is a lot of "ifs"... I always wanted to reboot, and I'm not sure I'd have the nerve to do the hookups even if I had let that go. 

I will say I'm also lucky in that I didn't have to deal with it while married.  I told myself the lie for a long time that if I was married I wouldn't need porn, but I know that I would have been a husband trying to deal with a porn addiction, and I'm thankful that I didn't have to go down that road.  My sympathies and support to the guys who do have to deal with that.

Having just relapsed tonight. I'm not quite sure yet what would take me to stop. But the likely hood is continuing to live with no real sex life or connection to someone from the opposite sex in a romantic way.

The realization that PMO has caused severe PIED and is now affecting my relationship (read: has killed sex) with my wife was what it took for me to stop cold turkey. Never mind the years of feeling guilty about using P/MO. Somehow I minimized that guilt and shame enough to keep using and tell myself I?ll stop tomorrow. The amount of short circuiting to the brain is unreal. But the healing is beginning and no looking back.

I'm in a moment of my life when I realized that porn and masturbation have done serious psychological damage plus they have been a part of my self-medication and escape from life for too long. My relationship with them is toxic right now. I just feel like I really need to stop and maybe this is how it's supposed to be. When you feel like something is damaging, to do something and stop it.
To answer your question, if I understood it correctly, I think I hit rock bottom right now. It's already worse enough. I really don't have anything in my life right now that would be seriously damaged by my porn use, only myself. I don't lose any wife or whatever. It's just that it reminds me too much of why I do it in the first place and I'm on a mission to change my life so this means stopping what I've been using to run away from my life. If this makes sense.