First, our bias, stated plainly: we make Rewired, a paid method for quitting porn, and EasyPeasy is free. So read this as a competitor’s review. Every EasyPeasy price, quote, and date on this page comes from its public pages, checked in July 2026 — and nothing here is paraphrased to sound worse than it actually reads.
Second: we do not publish a success rate of our own, and neither does anyone else in this category with a methodology you could actually check. So this page compares what each thing is and what each thing claims — not whose numbers are bigger. Every competitor claim below appears in quotation marks, in their words.
Read EasyPeasy first — we mean that
EasyPeasy is a free, open-source book that adapts Allen Carr’s stop-smoking method to porn — 32 chapters you read once, written by a pseudonymous author who goes by “Hackauthor².” The real book is free at easypeasymethod.org under a Creative Commons license (as of July 2026); unofficial paid copies exist on Amazon, but you never need to buy one. It is the default recommendation on Reddit, and that reputation is earned.
So we will say the thing a paid competitor is not supposed to say: if you have not read EasyPeasy, read it before you spend a cent on anything — including us. There is no email wall, no countdown, and no upsell at the end, and Goodreads readers rate it 4.17 out of 5 across 684 ratings. A review that skips the free option is not an honest review.
What EasyPeasy gets right
Most of what EasyPeasy gets right is what it refuses to do. It is free and open-source. It puts up no email wall, runs no countdown timer, and sells you nothing on the last page. Its testimonials are raw, unpolished forum posts rather than staged five-star quotes — when you read them, you are reading strangers, not marketing copy.
It also shares our least-common conviction: it is anti-streak. It explicitly tells you not to cut down while you read, and it hands you no day counter to defend. In a market full of trial traps and streak anxiety, that is genuinely honorable — which is a large part of why it is the default recommendation on Reddit. Our disagreement is with where the method stops, never with its integrity. For a wider view of the field, our roundup of the best books to quit porn puts EasyPeasy in context alongside the rest.
Where it ends: understanding is not a plan
EasyPeasy is a single cognitive reframe. You read it once, the framing clicks, and — in its own words — you “stop using pornography immediately, painlessly, and permanently without willpower” (their site). For some readers that click is real and immediate. The open question is what happens three weeks later, when the reframe has to survive an ordinary bad evening on its own.
Here the research is unromantic. The only real-world measurement of how habits actually automate found a median of 66 days to reach automaticity, with a range from 18 to 254 days (Lally et al., 2010). One afternoon of reading is not 66 days of repetition. That study also carries a caveat we will name for it: it measured people forming simple habits, like drinking a glass of water, not breaking a compulsive one — so treat 66 days as a floor for how slow change tends to be, not a formula for this specific problem.
The same study holds a quieter, kinder finding: missing a single isolated opportunity “did not materially affect the habit formation process” (Lally et al., 2010). One bad day does not erase the work — but noticing that in the moment requires a structure that is still there the next morning. A book you finished last week is not. We wrote the long version of this in why one reading rarely holds.
EasyPeasy vs. Rewired
Here is the whole comparison in one view. EasyPeasy is listed first, on purpose. Prices, quotes, and dates are taken from public pages in July 2026.
| Row | EasyPeasy | Rewired |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free (CC-licensed; unofficial paid copies exist on Amazon) | $25 book / $79 with the 84-day program — one-time |
| What it is | A 32-chapter book you read once | A 152-page book plus an 84-day, day-by-day program |
| Method | Cognitive reframe (Allen Carr's smoking method, adapted to porn) | Mechanism education + a mapped daily protocol |
| Citations | None — claims are asserted, not sourced | Every claim cited to peer-reviewed research; correlational labeled as such |
| Its own words on outcome | "stop using pornography immediately, painlessly, and permanently without willpower" (their site) | No cure promises. Reported findings, cited — nothing more |
| After the last page | The method ends there, by design | Days 1–84 are mapped; the program starts where the book ends |
| Streak stance | Anti-streak — tells you not to cut down while reading | Anti-streak — no counters; a slip is not a relapse (Curry, Marlatt & Gordon, 1987) |
| Author | Pseudonymous ("Hackauthor²"), no credentials claimed | Pseudonymous too (James Brown) — our authority is the citations, which you can check |
| Support if it stops working | None — no follow-up structure; communities are external | Structured daily program; 7-day money-back guarantee |
Two rows deserve a word. On price, EasyPeasy wins outright: it is free, while we charge $25 for the book or $79 for the book plus the 84-day program (as of July 2026). On citations, we differ by design — EasyPeasy contains none, and every claim on a Rewired page is tied to peer-reviewed research, with correlational findings labeled as correlational. If you want each row walked in detail, that is our full Rewired vs. EasyPeasy comparison.
Different promises, on purpose
The deepest difference is not price; it is what each product promises. EasyPeasy promises the end of the problem: “Instantaneous. Equally as effective for the heavy and casual user alike.” (their site), and “thousands stopping every day using this method” (their site) — a figure it attaches no source to. Rewired promises less, on purpose. It makes no cure claim, no “permanent,” and states no success rate, because compulsive porn use is not a standalone DSM-5 diagnosis and the “addiction” framing is still debated — so any product that guarantees to end it is promising something the science has not settled.
The two also treat a slip differently. EasyPeasy’s model implies that once you understand the reframe you simply stop, which means a later return can read as proof the method failed you. The evidence points elsewhere. After a lapse, the strongest predictor of a full relapse is not the lapse itself — it is how the person interprets it (Curry, Marlatt & Gordon, 1987). A slip read as “I blew it, back to zero” tends to become one; a slip read as data does not. That is why Rewired keeps no counters and treats a slip as information rather than a verdict, and it is part of why going it alone is harder than it looks — something we cover in a structured program versus going it alone.
So, plainly: read EasyPeasy. If the reframe holds for you, you will have spent nothing and solved your problem, and we will have been a footnote you did not need. If it fades after a couple of weeks — a pattern that recurs in posts across its own communities — the problem was never that you failed to understand it. Understanding was the beginning. What comes after the last page needs a structure, and that is the part we built.
FAQ
Is the EasyPeasy method worth it?
Yes, and we sell a competing product, so weigh that. EasyPeasy is free, open-source, and carries no email wall, countdown, or upsell, and Goodreads readers rate it 4.17 out of 5 across 684 ratings. It is the default recommendation on Reddit, and we tell readers to try it before paying for anything, including Rewired. Whether the reframe holds past the first few weeks varies from person to person.
Is EasyPeasy really free, or is there a paid version?
The real book is free at easypeasymethod.org under a Creative Commons license (as of July 2026). Unofficial paid copies exist on Amazon, but you never need to buy one to read the method. If you see it sold as a book or an app, that is not the official source.
Why did EasyPeasy stop working for me?
A one-afternoon reframe fading is not a personal failure. The only real-world measurement of habit automation found a median of 66 days, with a range of 18 to 254 (Lally et al., 2010), so lasting change tends to be slow and a single reading may not carry it, though that study looked at forming simple habits, not breaking a compulsive one. It is also easy to read a later slip as proof you failed; research on the abstinence violation effect finds that how you interpret a lapse predicts relapse more than the lapse itself (Curry, Marlatt & Gordon, 1987).
Is there a free alternative to EasyPeasy?
EasyPeasy is the free option in this category, which is part of why it is recommended so often. Rewired is a paid method — $25 for the book or $79 with the 84-day program (as of July 2026) — so we are not a cheaper alternative; we are a more structured one. If cost is your main constraint, read EasyPeasy first.
Does EasyPeasy cite any research?
No. It contains no citations; its claims are asserted rather than sourced. That is a style inherited from Allen Carr's original stop-smoking method, not necessarily a flaw, but it means you cannot check its statements against the published literature.
Is EasyPeasy or Rewired better?
They are different things, not two versions of the same thing. EasyPeasy is a free single reframe you read once; Rewired is a cited book plus an 84-day, day-by-day program that starts where a book ends. If the reframe alone holds for you, you do not need us — and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.