what made you decide to quit?

Stumbling on yourbrainonporn.com was what did it for me. As soon as I started learning about what all porn was doing to me, I was determined to quit. Wasn't very successful at first, but that's where the process began.

 

There was no horrible accident or failure...
I was travelling in Budapest, having fun, for 5 days I had a great experience with great people (without any PM)... and then I've returned home. I wanted to fap, I did it... And suddenly I understood, this shouldn't be happening! I felt like I betrayed all the good times I had for something worthless and meaningless! That changed me! Budapest changed me (Hello to every hungarian members if we have any - Szia!)!

 

Szia! :- ))

To the topic:
I lost my virginity pretty early and I had DE soon after that. Looking backwards it was one of the reasons my first 2 relationships fucked up. My first try with nofap was 70 days somehow it was pretty fucking easy, then I thought I am totally healed, then started with porn again and started watching more and more hardcore stuff. Since then I am struggling, but now I feel that I am on the good way of life. Nofap totally change my mind when I am on long streaks. It's like I really experience life and do not waste my time on useless things. Thats why I decided to continue.

 

I went on a journey before I stumbled on nofap.

I couldn't get it up the second time round with a girl. I went to the doctor and he told me it was stress. I thought I had ED problems. I even brought a book about normal ED. It really didn't help. You have to take a lot of supplements. I tried eating lots blueberries and it didn't help lol

I did an online search and found Pegym com. The problem I found was, it was dealing with different kinds of ED. You get all types of advice and it becomes confusing.

My friend recommended nofap to me as he watched it on youtube. I did a google search and found the forum. I wasn't sure which ED I had but posted and described what happened during sex. Two of the poster said I had Porn Induced Erectile Dysfunction. I wasn't sure but trusted them.

2 week later, I was watching a youtube clip and all of a sudden I heard sex noises. I was hard and I knew at that point it was PIED. That's when I decided to quit watching porn and masturbating.

I took me a while before I found nofap. I'm glad I did. I wish I knew it was porn related sooner.

 

I have PIED since I was 16 and was miserable. I thought it was due to me smoking receipt paper and the harmful chemicals in that giving me ED. Then I thought it was me slipping in the bathtub hitting my spine, then I thought it was due to circumcision. I searched and searched and found yourbrainonporn. I realized the problem.

Started my journey to quit porn in 2013 and finished it in 2017.

 

2013. I was in the final year of undergrad, a time in my life when my PMO addiction peaked. I was actually turning up late to classes because I was jerking off right at the last second before leaving. I felt permanently fatigued, anxious and was suffering from inexplicable headaches. I don't know what made me reach the conclusion, but I recall googling "is masturbating too much bad for you", which in turn led to me discovering the nofap community over on reddit. Been trying to kick this junk ever since.

I've not beaten this thing yet, but life has gotten a fuckload better since those days. Maybe this streak'll be the one….

 

I got tired of the guilt and shame after pmo that I decided I didn't want to do it anymore.

 

Getting to a point where you could only get off to extreme hardcore porn really damages your heart and soul.

I've always tried quiting but I took it more serious and got hooked on to NoFap after watching Gary Wilson's Ted Talk "The Great Porn Experiment" back in 2015 of July.

 

I ran into something along the lines of NoFap but I couldn't really remember what the video was . But I will say I give my thanks to "Mikkois" from youtube, Terry Crews, & of course NoFap.com

 

This

Something like that happened to me, I never fap when I'm on holiday, but didn't quite think about it at the time.

 

Hi!

I can relate to this experience.

During a two week visit to Italy, I didn't have the urge to, or even think about PMO once. All that was on my mind was exploring, meeting new people, and making the most of my time.

I had an amazing and life changing experience out there, and when I got home I just thought "wow, I really don't need PMO in my life!"

Experiences like this are proof that changing your environment and lifestyle are key to beating this.

Life is precious, and we need to make sure we're living the hell out of it!

 

For years I had this problem of depression and anxiety and then I got with a girl and for like 2 months we were together I was the happiest man alive all my symptoms where gone I was a functioning humans eventually the relashionship ended I was sad relapsed to porn for a few weeks and went back to old habits then I was just like I wonder if porn is making me like this quick google search of 'is watching porn damaging' and I stumbled upon Gary Wilsons ybop and then realised the path I needed to take to be my true self

 

You....stopped smoking receipt paper though right?

 

I thought that my journey was accidental but I actually believe that it was a calling This post is going to be slightly religious which I hope doesn't offend anyone.

I had been deeply ashamed of my habit for a long time. I was pretty scared about some of the stuff that I escalated to and tried several times to reign my habit in but it kept getting out of control. I never accepted really that I was addicted although in the back of my mind I did think that I was and whilst I think that I wanted to quit it, I didn't really know how (I had no idea about NoFap). I also had pretty bad OCD (mainly HOCD but I have other OCDs as well) although didn't realise that it was that at the time.

So anyway, I was browsing Facebook and saw one of those clickbait articles about someone that gave up sex and masturbation for 21 days. I thought "that's ridiculous" but was intrigued and read it. Seeing that I thought "maybe I could give it up for a bit". In the article they talked about NoFap and so I did a little research, end up on YourBrainOnPorn, Gabe Deem's YouTube channel and NoFap. Feeling really inspired I decided on that day (16th July 2016) to give it a go. I must say that I was initially apprehensive about the thought of 90 days but the rest they say is history.

I do believe that article was a divine intervention. A few days into my NoFap I was struggling a bit one night and I believe that I heard the voice of God telling me that he wanted to help me. I had been religious but never really "properly" but that night I refound my religion. So I do believe, for me, that NoFap was a calling and was like a rebirth for me.

 

Yea lol. I used to roll joints with receipt paper because I couldn't afford rolling papers

 

A couple things came together for me. One, was researching why the old timer martial artists said to not masturbate in order to attain higher levels of martial arts.
The other, is the fear of getting into more perverted kinds of porn. I just don't want to go down that road.

 

Terrible symptoms. And the fact that my blood work came back with low testosterone.

 

I had really bad anxiety when I Pmo'd I thought nofap would cure me. It didn't of course but my anxiety has weakened a noticeable amount and after that I felt all the other involuntary benefits and decided I really needed to stick to this and make mofap a lifestyle because well I had no life xP.

 

It was the loneliness that made me do it. Back in 2014 I was at my worst didn't wanna leave the house for anything not even for a date. 2016 i had my worst case of PIED I couldn't get it up at all not even for a second. So that set it off me and I'm hoping it'll stay away this time around.