Quitting porn when you work from home
Working from home sounds great until you notice what it really means: you are alone, on a screen all day, with nobody around and no clear end to the day. For a lot of people, that is exactly when porn sneaks in, often in the dead middle of the afternoon.
Why home can be harder than the office
- Privacy. Nobody walks past your screen.
- Boredom. The gaps between tasks feel long.
- Putting things off. A hard task, a quick escape, and an hour is gone.
- No edges. No commute, so work and home blur together.
Give your day some shape
Get dressed like you are going somewhere. Work in one spot, not in bed. Take your breaks away from the screen: a walk, the kitchen, outside. Pick an end time and stick to it. When the urge comes, wait it out for fifteen minutes and do something else. How the 15-minute rule works.
Block it where you work
If you work on your own Mac, block porn there too, not just on your phone. Escape's free Safari blocker covers it, so use Safari for anything personal. And if it is a company laptop, remember your employer's IT may see what that machine does.
Where Escape helps
Escape blocks adult sites in Safari on your Mac, and on your iPhone and iPad it can cover every browser and lock the apps where it usually starts. It does this privately, with no account and nothing collected. Set it up once, and the slow Tuesday afternoon stops being a risk.
Escape blocks porn in Safari for free, extends to every browser with Deep Block, and adds a 90-second urge ritual, practice games that retrain how you meet an urge, and 28 short courses on identity and the long arc of recovery. No account, no personal tracking.
More on this topic in Quitting in real life, or go deeper with the Stress without a valve course.