How long will I be addicted for?

I don't know if it came off that way but porn is disgusting to me, and after I'm clean I have no intention on going back even for once in a while.

I was just making comparisons and explaining that most addictions are the same in a lot of ways, but if you're able, feel comfortable and choose to go back to something like alcohol then I don't see a problem whether it's deemed to have "no value" or not. That's why I was saying with my food addiction, I had to go back to eating otherwise I'll obviously die, and that's where I really had to learn self control and discipline. You can apply those skills and knowledge to any addiction, but everyone is different and that's just what I had to go through.

 

When I go back and read Ali's initial question, I think that Sarah has read it more correctly than me. And she is saying that you can get this addiction under control, and you can get to the point of not seeking it out. My warning still stands, don't think you can go back and "just try it one more time"

This has been a great thread from start to finish.

 

This ^^^^^ is hugely inaccurate. Having access to a regular sexual partner DOES NOT prevent sexual addiction nor treat it (go to the "rebooting in a relationship" forum to see for yourself.). Sexual addiction is about mismanagement of emotions and not sex. Escapism, boredom, shame etc contribute, not a lack of sex.

 

third alternative..

1. marriage wont solve your addiction
2. certainly help you to go through with your wife's help

I am in long distance relationship with my wife. I started this NoFap to stay loyal with my wife. I was on fap once a day for 20years.. It would help me to focus on her and done with reboot before she shift with me.

there needs to be a goal to get out of fap cycle. try Karezza with her..

 

I am sure they is an algorithm to work this kind of thing out. if I remember correctly, it runs along the lines of x = l/10 = where x represents the recovery time, l the length of user time. All other things being equal of course.

 

oh x=20/10=2 years.. wow.. my wife would want kids before that.. I cant do no-pmo. may be no-pm.

 

I still say "yikes!" No matter how I measure, I have been a porn "user" for a lot of years. Most of my twenties and thirties have been spent in pursuit of an every increasing sexual "high". The stories told had to be nuttier and nuttier.....So I kept raising the bar: Hooker? How about two of them.... Sex club? How about me arranging my own special party at one......etc. etc. Soooooo, as a user? I gotta say 30 years....at least. 30/10 = 3 years of recovery. Wow.

That can't be the "date"....it has to be a lifestyle.

 

I didnot read all the responses in this thread, so please forgive me for my laziness.

Let me answer the question this way:

One important point to keep in mind is that although nofap gets easier every pasting day, the addiction will not go away completely. Its sometime like, you taste coffee and decide to quit drinking coffee. Does that mean that you totally forget the taste of coffee after 100 days of quitting. No right??? sure, the memory of the taste of coffee would have faded away, but not totally gone. Similarly, the addiction will fade away with time, but will not go away completely. Thats why people can relapse even after being on nofap for more than a year.