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25. The Ironic Rebound Effect: Why Suppressing Urges Can Make Things Worse (And What to Do Instead)

Unhooked: Breaking Porn Addiction Podcast

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The Effect of Suspending Cravings on Smoking

When you try to suppress your urge to watch porn, what happens is that that desire and that urge gets stronger. This was also illustrated in a real world example, something that they looked at in relationship to habits,. And in this case, it was a bad habit. Looked at it with smokers. They took these groups and they asked one group to suppress thoughts of smoking. The other group was asked to think about smoking all the time. A third control group wasn't asked to do anything in particular.

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