Need Advice

Hello, NoFap community. Very rare lurker here (as in I lurk in this site very rarely), first account here. However, I'm not interested in the forum scene, so once I get some decent advice, this account will be deleted. Some backstory, though I will provide a TLDR at the end for those who just want to get to the crux of the issue. I don't know why I'm writing this out, other than the hope that it would help. Somehow.

I've been into masturbating since I was 5 (prone) and porn since I was 13 about 1-3 times a day. I began trying to give it up in early 2017 when I was told by my father that masturbating often was unhealthy. We were talking about sexual health at the time. For a while, my limit was usually about 3 weeks until I'd give in and then I started making bigger numbers. A month became easy. Eventually, I set a personal record of over 2 months. However, since September of 2019, I've been struggling to reach even a month. By 2020, 2-3 weeks was a challenge once more. And I have no idea why.

I don't remember how I managed my best streaks before and with everybody staying home most of the time, I don't have many places to go to help forget about urges. Every time I give in, I always promise myself to last a month only to give in once more before that time could arrive. I don't know how others manage to maintain 80+, 90+, 100+ streaks. I've thought about trying to weed it out instead since clearly, cold turkey is either not working for me or the way I'm doing it isn't working. However, I'm not sure if it would help.

It feels like my willpower has been shot to hell. Used up, dried out since it was primarily the only thing I was relying on for these past few years. I feel like I need a mental reboot before I can start my NoFap reboot. Question is, how do I do that?

TLDR: The usual you may see here, I guess. I'm struggling to see big streaks and I'd like to know how others do it.

 

I should point out some things:

• I don't use social media.
• I used to peek, but I conquered that.
• I have 3+ hobbies that I am going to commit to.
• I would take cold showers, but in the summer, the pipes of my house get so warm that the cold setting is no different from warm.
• I do have an edging/fantasizing problem that hits in the morning and I'm currently dealing with it.
• I am single, so I can't rely on a woman to relieve my sexual urges for porn nor do I think it's an optimal way to abstain.
• I do have blockers, but they might as well not be there since it is so easy to get around them. Besides, I've learned that blockers are not a save-all, be-all. If you want to see porn, you will see it.
• I don't have anyone I am comfortable talking to about this in my personal life.

 

Bump incase any others have more wisdom. I'll reply later tonight.