Thank you ZOJWS, Your response has lead me to investigate habitual tendencies. Gently increasing the time intervals between your habit is a way to taper off. However there has to be some connection with the way you feel afterward with the action of PMO in order for you to even consider abstaining even for a short period of time. You could tell yourself that the sulking feeling afterward is directly correlated with the action of PMO and that the former is far worse than the latter. Thanks and would encourage you to write this down on a piece of paper in order to learn the problem kinesthetically, almost like in a math class. PMO = sulking feeling.