What experiences do you have with quitting porn but maintaining masturbation?

I got relatively far in my reboot process, as I'm capable of maintaining 30+ streaks of no pmo. The problem is that I'm starting fantasizing at some point. This doesn't make me relapse, but it surely drags my rebooting process back. This made me wonder what would happen if I fapped once every few days without watching porn and without edging(basically straight orgasming) to eliminate those dangerous thoughts for some time. Has someone tried that out yet and would like to share, what effects that had on himself, regarding self esteem, etc?