Rboot afther roboot :(

Yes, from days zero to two or three, the guilt from the last lapse is enough for me to abstain from doing it again. But after the guilt fades, you will be hit with strong urges. Outlast them, and you will be rewarded.

Although the urges start to diminish over time (after about 3-4 weeks), you will still get them. You may get peaks of urges for a few days at a time. It seems for me about every 2-3 weeks I have a rough few days, and then I return to the flatline.

Ten days is a good initial goal. You will face strong urges in the first 10 days. However if you can outlast them, you will be setting yourself up well for the days to come after that. Good luck!

 

Well I'm on day 7 I think, and I think I got it this time. You see, I'm like you, been relapsing over and over for the past many months. What's different this time are the steps I have taken to not do that ever again.

I have an app called SelfControl on my mac which blocks any website that you add to the blacklist. So I entered reddit, twitter, facebook (even though I don't have an account), youtube, 4chan and all the porn sites I could think of. I also blocked picture sharing sites like imgur and flickr etc.

The reason for this is every relapse for me starts with 'innocent' browsing, eg I'll be browsing funny vids on youtube and then the sexy thumbnail on the right grabs my attention. One thing leads to another and pretty soon I'm full-out binging to some sick porn video.

Selfcontrol stops this in its tracks. Essentially it means my internet is limited to mostly nofap.org and email. I also blocked reddit, even though I can't access /r/nofap, as the risk is too great.

If you use windows, maybe you can get something similar to Selfcontrol. I also cut out gaming, been gaming free for weeks now!

Hope this helps