RE and porn addiction

After recent research on RE, I think a major contribting factor is my addiction to pornagraphy. I have recently cut way back on the amount of porn I watch and am beinging to try to change the way i masterbate to try to help me with my affliction. My question i want to pose is..
I generally do not have a girlfriend in my life. They are few and far between, and me and my last girlfriend just broke up. Knowing that I probably wont have one for a long time, should I continue my efforts to completely stop watching porn and masterbation? Or should I just realistically cut back on how much I use it? I feel i will inevietably have to release, but obviously these habits have lead me down a bad road and it may be a good idea to try to avoid it as much as possible. What are your insights to balancing this in a time of solitude?

You should cut it out of your life completely. It is poison to you. The fact is, it is preventing you from experiencing real women. They simply cannot give you the sensations that porn can. And you've conditioned your brain to require that level of intensity.

If you choose porn over the chance at a healthy relationship down the line just because you are not in a relationship now, you will live to regret it. My husband regrets his choices and wishes he could do it all differently now, because he hates the way he cannot respond to me the way a normal guy would. He hates the way it hurts me and makes me doubt his attraction. And he hates that he can't have with me something beautiful, because he squandered himself on porn.

So give up both porn and masturbation. It won't be easy, but someday you might realize that it was the smartest thing you have ever done for your relationship -- the one that you will find that you will want to keep. Because the alternative might very well be that you can't have the woman you love because she simply can't put up with your problems.

thank you for the input wonderful. I have already reduced the frequency that i use my crutch. I dont think i can just quit cold turkey, i am being more progressive with it. Like when I quit smoking. I went from multiple times a day to once a day to a couple times a week, to a couple times a month etc. I just feel that this is going to be much harder. because i typically go years without being in a relationship. However I think you are right in I just need to quit all together. Me wanting to occasionally do it is just part of me wanting to retain my addiction. Just like I told myself oh well I will just smoke when I drink. And when i drank I would buy a pack and i would be hooked again. There can be no exceptions. Although I think this is going to take some time because I feel that the wayI have conditioned myself I must use a certain technique when i masterbate, and as i am kicking the habit, I am trying to uncondition myself to that behavior. It is going to be a long process but in the end it will undoubtably be worth it. Any more input on this would be apprechiated.

Keep up the good work. I'm proud of you and you should be proud of yourself, too.

I'm kicking alcohol so I can understand what you're going through.

Put that time/energy/desire into working on yourself. Work out. When you want to masturbate or watch porn, pick up some weights. Get the bod you've always wanted. It is a trick a lot of guys who are going through divorce use. They come out of what they feel is a failure looking and feeling better than ever. It takes a while and there are always setbacks and bad days. But the longer term result is something to feel good about.