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Do you think fapping leads to drug addiction?

Discussion in 'Off-topic Discussion' started by ahighertruth, Jul 21, 2020.

  1. ahighertruth

    ahighertruth Fapstronaut

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    I was trying to see where I went wrong man yyears back. I wasn't a good kid growing up, but I knew right from wrong. I never thought I would have got into drugs when I was young, but things escalated and before I knew it I was getting high daily from 18-30. Now I am trying to think back to where things went wrong. I know I quit for a little bit during college, but after I relapsed into PMO I started smoking weed shortly after. Does PMO alter the brain chemistry to want to do more things that feel good like drugs and binge eating?
     
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  2. drac16

    drac16 Fapstronaut

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    I don't think one leads to another, but there are some parallels between a drug addiction and a compulsive masturbation addiction. Both can have some pretty severe withdrawal symptoms.
     
  3. Not that I'm aware of, porn is pretty much already a drug when you're addicted and it works the same way. Once you gain a tolerance your brain requires more and more the longer you continue it, so I honestly don't see wanting to use drugs or something else happening.
     
  4. ahighertruth

    ahighertruth Fapstronaut

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    Hard to see your text with black on black lol. I get that it is like a drug in itself, but its also a feel good activity. They say most drugs are gateways to other drugs, so in my mind it makes sense that PMO is a gateway to more hardcore stuff like weed, coke, pills, etc. Whenever I jack off I am usually tempted to go back to smoking weed again. Idk maybe I just have issues.
     
  5. BloodyM

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    Nope.. It makes no sense bro.
    Masturbation itself is an addictive thing (for some of us) because it's the easiest way to please yourself and to calm your body down without doing too much (to the point where you don't even need to get out of your bed to do so)
    but from fapping once or twice a week to smoking weed? hell no.

    You'll have to dig deeper and to see the bigger picture in order to find the answer to why you started smoking weed.
    Did any of your relatives or friends ever smoked weed in front of you?
    When was the first time that you've noticed that you started to find interest in using drugs?
    What could be the potential triggers for it? because for sure it's not pmo.. It can't be
     
  6. I was thinking the same thing the other day. Perhaps. I started on weed in high school then quickly progressed to hard drugs and struggled with p and women for many years. I have been clean for about a year now and realized in the last year how bad p was and that's something that needed dealing with. Honestly hats off to nofap its changing my life.
     
  7. scientifically porn addiction works in the same way drug addiction work and both impact the life in same way i.e. negatively... as drug forces you to take dose similarly porn forces you to watch video or pics... as drug addiction goes worse as time pass so is porn both are almost similar... the major difference is you can't get drug so easily you need to make some effort but for porn all you need is to type a website and the porn world is in front of you & this makes the porn addiction more severe and dangerous than drug...

    logically porn addiction leads you to depression, anxiety & mood-swing which most of the time it may leads you to fall for drug so yeah fapping in pmo can lead to drug addiction...
    it is not proved that just because you are addicted to one thing you won't get addicted to another thing... so there is more probable chance that your porn addiction may lead you to drug addiction...
     
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