I Gotta Do This

Nofap should be as important as your breathing. Thats how hard you should kick this habit

 

One thing you can read here and there, is that in the first place people start with PMO and they continue doing so because it helps them escape their emotions - whether it is anxiety, depression, stress, sadness, etc. The very first goal you need to strive towards is managing your emotions. It seems that meditation is a great tool because meditation helps you observe your thoughts rather then get attached with each one of them. By staying detached these emotions will not crush you and force you to PMO in order to escape from them.

Second goal is that you always need to be aware of NoFap. You need to check in here (or on similar websites) daily in order to insert NoFap into you consciousness - read and analyze articles and continue posting your own stuff. By doing so, you will be closer to your goals of changing your lifestyle.

Furthermore, maintain a healthy lifestyle. Try to eat as healthy as possible, make sure you get on a consistent sleep-awake schedule (8 hours ideally) and work out as much as possible (both cardio and lifting). If you can also take cold shower you just fucking do it, man, because why not - you are in commando mode after all. Make sure you socialize and interact with people, give them attention and be patient. Your brain will love your for that.

Do not assume that you will be all good after 90 or 120 days. If you cannot wait for these days to pass so you can fap again, chances are, you are still hooked. Just try thinking of commando mode as a drastic measure that will change your life for the better. Deep down, you will know it when you are all set.

Last and not least, by all means, do not fantasize about porn or even romanticize about real women. Fantasizing has messed up my initial 120 days streak and I do not think I gained much from it as fantasizing turns into a constant battle that you will ultimately lose to cravings. By not fantasizing you will kick your brain in the nuts - I have major insomnia now in my second reboot for about 2.5 months but it will all be worth it.

 

This helped me a lot! I copied and pasted it over from my thread.

(Let me forewarn anyone attempting the following suggestion to make sure they add the NoFap website to the “Allow List” as it actually locked me out from NoFap, even though it’s the one site I know of actually trying to help me do what the auto-block was also. Lol)

Hey everybody! I’m new, and yes I will get around to my intro post in the New Users section once I get the courage...lol

The “NoFap Browser” Technique

What I did was go on my phone (which is currently my only source of web browsing as I don’t have a computer) and I went into the restriction/parental lock settings. The way this is done is different on each device but I’m sure being an (ex)-internet/porn addict, you all can probably do some research and figure it out

I went into my iPhone settings, General, Restrictions and set a parental lock...for myself! I know, it sounds silly! Lol

The iPhone’s Restriction settings have options you can choose such as automatically blocking explicit content as well as specifying which sites to allow and which to manually block. Whichever device you have, I’m sure there will be something similar.

When I had further specified (after the auto-block) what websites I didn’t want to see just in case the auto-block didn’t work, I set a four digit pin. I believe most parental locks have 4-digits, if not more.

This part might be a bit tricky. Quickly set a pin using the number pad provided by your device. However, since the device will ask you to type the pin twice, in essence, you’ll want to create a pin without letting your brain remember it.

Don’t think too long about what numbers to press. Quickly type in 4 numbers and try your best to type in the same 4, while at the same time ignoring what numbers your pressing. As I said, tricky. Lol

I am happy, however, to report that it works! Since the settings are from my iPhone itself, it will actually block all of those sites no matter what browser you are using! I thought I could trick the system and use Google Chrome instead of Safari, but nope! It will simply tell you that the website can not be reached. I almost had a lapse and this actually stopped me dead in my tracks!! I even felt better right then and there, once my erection went down (lol), knowing I almost slipped but actually couldn’t even do so if I wanted to!

If you realize that you actually happened to remember the pin you set, no worries! Just reset it. I can honestly say, I have no idea what pin I set. Lolol

If you have more than one way to access the internet, just make sure to go through each device and find those settings, in whatever form it may be or different name it may have.