rebooting

Hey All, I've been a lurker here for many years. I've never been able to beat this habit and unfortunately I keep thinking I'll never be able to either. I have made progress but also made sure to undue said progress. I am not sure what there is left to do other than give up. My urges come in...

Complete rebooting is based on 2 pillars: Learning how to say "no". Minimizing triggers. Most of the discussions on this site center around the first pillar, because it's clearly the more important one. But let's not forget the second, either! We have to get our intentions correct first. We...

Trigger warning: This post may be triggering for some, so I advise caution when reading this. Hello All. Last night I was laying in bed and I heard some noises coming from the other room. It sounded like S** noises and I was hearing it and I became more alert. Although the possibility it was...

Hello everyone. I’m 24M who began watching porn roughly around age 10. I’ve been addicted for years and it’s picked up in severity the last 6 months. I struggle to go even one day now. As I type this, I feel very little hope and virtually no optimism, but seeing such a focused and intentional...

So welcome readers to my thread, i want to unzip the high and lows during my rebooting, i have tracked my walking steps daily with an app, also my journals are from day to day, i have noticed i entered hell of withdrawals after day 60, check images to see what i talk about, around month 1/-2...

Hey everyone, I'm an experienced nofapper. I've been practicing nofap for over 5 years now and I'm so happy I can maintain long streaks. I just have one thing that's been on my mind a lot; it is looking with a bit of lust over some slightly sexual things. It's impossible for me to not come...

So I'm currently on a 7-day streak. I was having my online classes and was solving some 11-grade problems. Suddenly out of the blue, I felt something wet in my trousers. I ejaculated. There was no "pleasure" or anything else. Just ejaculated. Is this a relapse? Should I reset my streak? And no...

i’m 15. my addiction started when i was 11-12 and i’ve been doing it excessively. ive experienced most of the symptoms (low libido, low self esteem, weak reactions) it’s also seems like it has been changing my attraction even though i love women. i just don’t see them the same as when i first...

***EDIT*** Liftoff, the better game, is HERE NoFap was founded in 2011 by Alexander Rhodes, partially in attempt to "gameify" quitting PMO. This was accomplished rather simplistically by merely counting "clean" days in a row, which we refer to as our "streak." It is now 2023, over a decade...

I started faping out loneliness back when I was 15 late 2019 and 2020's COVID made it even much worse. My parents have been separated since I was 4, and even though my mum is the best mum in the world, she wasn't ever present, she had a lot of things to do and think about. So must of this things...

Hi Everyone. I am male 29 years old about to turn 30 soon. I want to use NoFap as I feel that my habit of porn usage has become addictive since past 9 years. The frequency of porn usage has exponentially increased over time and I started to work on reducing it last 9 years. I have been...

Hi all, I did not realise I could do an introduction thread and I have already posted something in a different section. I am 45 and I have been a porn addicted since I was 23, when I first had internet and I could watch images and videos of all the fantasies I have had since I was 13. I...

Hello, I'm new to this community finally I decided to take action, and overcome my addiction that caused me so much trouble mentally and physically! Let's make it together and I'm looking for a friend to abstain with me for 21 days as my first challenge Good Luck to all

The story of a gardener is great one to tell you what you acctualy doing while mastrubating. He flushes most exotic perfume. And thats what we are (man and women) are doing every time when we mastrubate. Here are some facts for semen: How much would our life be better if we just do not...

Last night when i had to study for my exam, i was searching in porn sites, instead. I was watching some humiliating category. When i was done, i felt despised. I think that it is my dark side of personality. It's my shadow, in terms of jungian psychology. Carl Jung stated that confession has a...

Hi guys! This is my diary - the diary of a weak guy. I will start the restoration from tomorrow and will try to deal with you with real finds, which I have designated for myself in order to pass these 90 days. I will share here my feelings and impressions about every day. I know that there are...

Spend any amount of time here on NoFap and you'll discover, the average fapstronaut active in the forums is Overtly enthusiastic about quitting, and vocal about their disgust for P and the negative impact on their life Struggles to sustain a streak longer than a week Logically one can only...

I just feel so screwed. I quit PMO for good a little while ago, maybe a month or two - I stopped counting. I've been trying for years and finally kicked it and have no interest in porn or anything else for that matter. Which is the problem. I don't remember the last time I watched porn but I...

I was looking through my Snapchat, I couldn’t tell if it was a girls face faintly or a guys face and still can’t now bc it was blurry and dark but I kept looking, (I try not to look at girls faces bc they arouse me) and I stopped before it was too long but if it was a girls face (because of the...

Hi, I am going through a flatline right now. It started day before tomorrow. The symptoms I am facing are :- - Severe headache - Fever - Shoulder pain - Nausea - Head spinning (feeling like I will fall) - Pain in moving eyes - Brain Fog - Insomnia - ZERO LIBIDO (can't get hard even if I think...

I'm just asking this, because I ended one last week Wednesday. She basically threw the last straw at me and I have the comment still in my eyes. But what is the point of friendships/relationships? I've been told that they don't last forever. I'm theoretically starting to believe this to be...

The Situation I have finally decided to give Rebooting a go for at least 90 days. The problem is, I work in the pornographic software industry. Put simply, on a daily basis, I am expected to view fictional pornography and determine how it should be used and interacted with by our users, while...

I personally believe it's not possible, there's always some type of sexual tension and one of the two wants to have sex with the other. What do you think?

Hello guys! I been addicted to porn for more than 8 years. Every single day I was jerking off and watching porn. In the past, I failed a couple times to stop watching porn. However, this year I told my self that it was going to be different. I challenge my self to do the PMO challenge for 4...

I'm currently 24 years old and it feels like i have suffered great damage from porn. I became addicted to it 10 years ago. It never really felt like an addiction but it became a part of my life very soon. I was constantly struggling with anxiety and rejection in highschool so i have never been...

Hello! august 6 2020 I've quit the porn. 24 august I've met a girl from tinder, and on a first met we had sex. Then we started our relationships, all september we had regular casual sex. In october our relationships start falling apart. We only had sex twice in October. I became more irritable...

How to overcome a pornography addiction? one of the main steps in doing so is to hate porn. Stop masturbation and stop watching porno won’t be probably enough to end porn addiction. Because the subject will be brought to you at work, at home, in party, in the street, including discussion with...

It's a bit long , please bear with me. But , I desperately need a help. I'm a 33 years old man and have been married for 2 and a half years. I don't want to call myself a porn addict but I used to watch porn at least 2-3 times a week for the last 10-15 years. When I was not watching porn , I'd...

I just got out of a period of relapse, and this might sound disappointing, but I've made more progress then I have previously (Look at my day counter). To get straight to the point, I'm depressed, for some reason. I don't know if its just me or NoFap, but I really feel as if a part of me is...

Does it really matter? Hey guys. I hope you’re doing well. So, in this thread, I’m going to address an issue and that is the loss of motivation for rebooting. Once we forget the reason why we’re doing this, we are susceptible to relapse more than ever. After countless relapses, I’ve noticed that...

It's a bit long , please bear with me. But , I desperately need a help. I'm a 33 years old man and have been married for 2 and a half years. I don't want to call myself a porn addict but I used to watch porn at least 2-3 times a week for the last 10-15 years. When I was not watching porn , I'd...

It's a bit long , please bear with me. But , I desperately need a help. I'm a 33 years old man and have been married for 2 and a half years. I don't want to call myself a porn addict but I used to watch porn at least 2-3 times a week for the last 10-15 years. When I was not watching porn , I'd...

Hello there ! I am following the nofap creed since August 18th, since then i only PMOed twice on September 5th and 7th which is great because by the past, in the span of a month, i used to fap between 10 up to 15 times a month. I can already notice very positive changes with brain fog...

I went on the site and started swiping, and then I thought to myself wtf am I doing , it's so habitual and enticing at first when you think of that beginning and middle of your session, but then you remember how bad you feel after.

It's Day 15 for me and I've been feeling just kind of off today, feeling more sad and anxious and lonely and unmotivated to do the work I have to do today more than ever. My mom knows about my porn addiction because I've told her about it a while ago. For context, my mom is radically...

If an over 40s guy was to do NoFap, would the benefits be significantly less than a guy who's in their 20s and doing NoFap? Would the energy output be directed in a different way as well? For example, a guy in their 20s may use this to get a job, whereas a guy in his 40s may use this to keep his...

Hey everyone how’s everybody doing? This is my 1st week on nofap and I will continue to move on so I can quit on porn addiction so I can have better life and being a good person without the porn and able to reboot my brain to be a normal person.

I was introduced to NoFap prior 3 months . I've been on long streaks ever since and guess what ? My social anxiety , puffy male bosoms and my brainfog [The major reason I didn't score high on my SATs and caused me to drop my university courses ] have cured . The desire to get up and do something...

I've always wondered what most people do when they completed the 90-day challenge. The goal of the 90 day-challenge, as it says in the description, is to complete it and then never come back. So do most people relapse after they finished the streak or rather continue the streak? And what about...

I am 24 going on 25 and I have had serious PIED for 4-5 years, to the point where I couldn't even get full erections during PMO, but I still get morning wood sometimes. I have been without PMO for 2 months. I have not seen any improvement, though with the issue being as bad as it is, I wasn't...

I think being addicted to porn which has led to other porn, has def. negatively affect my new marriage life. I feel that my erection can come and go in an instance. My wife is pretty, but can’t keep an erection or get an erection. It’s really discouraging. And I’m sure it is for her. How...

Hey guys, so I am a new member to the nofap community. Ive struggled with porn as early as my 6th grade year. At first it was something that brought comfort and pleasure. Then it has transformed into a battle I am fighting tooth and nail. Due to the covid 19 pandemic going on, ive been trapped...

So this morning is day 11 and I'm finding it super hard to ignore the urges, I'm succeeding so far but I was hoping things would start to get easier at this point. I think I've had a problem for maybe 10/15 years that's probably escalated in the past 7/5 years and now that I'm recently single...

17 y/o Male Whatsup everyone, Im really glad to have stumbled across this website and im looking forward to achieving my goals and helping others achieve theirs. Anyways the guide said to share my story, so here it goes. I have not only been struggling with porn addiction but many other forms...

Hey guys I've been having some issues these last few days. I'm on day 25 of no pmo and my sexual energy is increasing and more difficult to manage. I don't believe I've had any wet dreams yet and haven't had any sex. I'm horny all the time. It's starting to affect my work and other aspects of my...

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Hi everyone! I'm new here. Does anyone have a playlist or know of any good music that doesn't include sexual themes? I've been staying away from rap and hiphop for obvious reasons. I like EDM, jazz and hard rock. EDM is usually okay, but sometimes I'll get a song that repeats trigger words...

Of late, I've been experimenting with purely spiritual methods to heal myself faster from the after-effects of wet dreams-- which itself is an after-effect of not ejaculating as often as one used to-- and I can say that the spiritual methods greatly speed up rebooting process. The concept is...

Dear All, To start with myself am 40 year old guy married with 4 kids who has been fapping to porn since medieval ages (for as long as I remember age 12 or 14). It is enlightened to me that it is an addiction due to following reasons: 1. I look at porn at office and I got cought at 2 jobs. 2...

It hasn’t been a good week or so, I’ve messed up a few times and came close today. I had the mindset of “you’re already a piece of shit, just do it”, which normally lead me to pmo in the past. But at the last minute I remembered something. There is a girl I like (this is a long story for...

I did it again, and this is a post about rebooting not relapsing. Why was rebooting so easy at first then challenging after my first mess up? I made it almost a month without PMO before relapsing for the first time, afterwards I find it a challenge to go a week without it. It's easier now to...

So about a week after my reboot started I met a girl and soon after we really hit it off. I like her, she like's me but we're both kind of getting over someone so it'll be a slow ride before we can think of being "official". Granted I need that slow ride. So my last gf was basically a human sex...

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To be fair is hasn’t been a month yet but I feel certain I will make it that far as the habit feels broken. I’ve noticed I sleep a lot better since beginning this journey. I’ve had trouble sleeping since I was little, before the addiction. But lately it just seems easier. I guess it’s because...

Hey guys. I have made an experience worth a new thread: If I don't fap to porn (or fap without) for one or two week, I felt like on the Streets out there, I am way more aggressive. I don't feel very comfortable with that. I know that everytime I get back to PMO, I get depressed, get headache in...

Can't remember the last time I made it one full week without PMO. The urges are ridiculous but I can't figure out if it really is an urge or if it's just a bad habit. Regardless I find writing about this to somewhat satisfy, or at least reduce, said urge. I've heard it takes approximately 21...

I'm currently on day 5, so no big achievement in terms of abstinence but I think I've hit a personal breakthrough that I wanted to share here. I went on a binging period of about 2 weeks before the beginning of September, and was feeling hopeless about not having enough will to get rid of this...

Getting sharp pain on my ankle specially when i woke up in the morning after that it goes away. Anyone getting the same? Is is a phase of recovery? Please comment.

Hi, After nearly a thousand attempts and failures, I have realized that I probably do not have enough willpower to quit an addiction. 12 Days now, Goal 90 Days. If I don't see any benefits after succeeding, I'm done with Nofap. Starting Nofap to Pre flatline- Good and bad days( mostly bad...

Hi All, I am on the 40th day of my NoFap. From the last 5 days, I noticed a few changes just want some suggestions are these normal? Though I am facing lot of good changes in my body few of them making me worry. I getting a light pain on my testicles. It doesn't happen all through the day, but...

hello everyone, nice to meet you all. An acute problem of PORN-MASTURBATION ADDICTION has hit me. I am a 25 yo male, completed studies and in a search for job. i have been watching porn and masturbating since i was 12yo. But from 3 years i have been experiencing serious "PORN-HIT" problems.It...

I just had my 6th or 7th wet dream since starting my current NoFap streak and I want to know if a wet dream affects you too much in the process of recovering from PMO addiction.

Took the time to let it become a problem again, and then PMO mounts up and becomes excusable. I don't know whether this will get taken down, I hope it doesn't. Another chance at life - coming off was a lucid experience and I'd like to do it again! Abstinence for me. Do let me know if this is in...

Reading some PhD authors on the topic of addiction I am left with the question as to whether or not a "reboot" for PMO is even POSSIBLE. An excerpt from an article in Psychology Today: "But Humphrey joins almost all reasonable researchers in the field of addiction in agreeing that there is a...

Hello everybody, I'm completely new at this I'm normally not the kind of person who shares a lot in media, or when interacting with others. That doesn't mean I don't like to talk or that I don't enjoy company, it's just that I tend to be very selective about sharing my private life with others...

I am 17 years old and have just started my reboot a few days ago as I just figured out that porn has caused my ED.I believe that I understand the process just fine but I have been watching porn from such a young age that I got my first hard ons from porn not real people. My question is after...

Im in my 6 day of NoFap , and i feel soo many rage , im usually a calm guy but since i started NoFap , my rage is increasing by the days . I read about workout , that helps , but i have a problem , i do bjj(brazilian jiujitsu ) and gym (and some times running) very very often and im used to...

Hey Ladies and gentleman. I have been struggling some time now with dating on rebooting or just in spite of making connections with woman. I have been online dating ever since the middle of last year and now I'm thinking of taking a break. I've had countless occurrences where I am meeting a...

Started 3 days ago and the first target is 100 days. So lets see who can reach 100 days of REBOOTING. 100 days Reboot challenge group is ON - Who is in !? Let's go to that WAR together and help each other out along the way.

Hi , New here. Started again after a long break 2 days ago (48HR) because i became aware again that i'm 24 and damn my life not even close a bit to where i want it to be and time flows by while i wasn't aware of it all this time. the reason is, porn and masterbation has been my Pain reliever ...

Hi there. My name is Dan , I am 25 yo. I've started nofap 76 days ago , my first streak ever. I used to watch masturbate since I was 11 yo with erotic content or using vhs tape with porn when my parents were not home and when I was 13 I got my first computer and I was watching porn and doing...

I almost relapsed yesterday, but luckily I didn't. Thing is, I didn't do so much thing yesterday and it seems that nothing special happened, I just worked, if that annoyed me then I cannot do anything else. Maybe I should try to have a hobby and devote to it, I always admire people who have a...

Life is utterly hard when you want to achieve something, you think you can do it at the very first time, but only the beginning is enough to destroy your whole determination. I have to admit that I am a weak person, especially when it comes to communication with people, every time when I have to...

I was busy doing my job last few weeks, and my life was a mess. I relapsed several times so I was afraid to say it loud on this, but finally I come back, and trying to do this again, I hope this time I can be tougher on myself and achieve my goal!

Hi guys, i started my rebooting two weeks ago. I can do it! Support!

I thought I will be depressed and regretful for several days after I relapsed, just like I did before, but I just get back to work today and didn't feel anything, I know my loss was huge, the feeling was just not strong as before, this time I want to have some reflection, and get the real life.

After relapsed the day before, I think this time I will make myself tired all the time, forget about the silly theory, forget about sleep, I will prolong my work time and do everything I can to produce more work. I am still depressed about the mistake I made, the desire cost me a lot of money...

I am still working on this programme, back in the days when I was doing PMO, I will do it even when Iwas exhausted, but today when I was tired, I make it through, though I still thought about that stuffs, I didn't do it, I just let it pass and do not act on it, that's a progress, and I am happy...

Halo guys, this is my perspective on the rebooting process. On why sometimes we feel worse (flatline and withdrawal symptoms such as brain fog, tired, depression, etc) before we feel really good and get the super power benefits from NoFap. Think of your brain like a road and your mind like a...

I am glad to see that I am about to make it 20! I was very busy since the beginning of Feb, but I am taking a rest this week. I found that once I slow down my pace, the thought will come up again, and it will attack me a lot, so I think this means that I still have to keep myself busy again...

After 14 days with nofap, I think I am coming back to reality gradually, I don't feel so annoyed by challenge, and I slept better at night. For the first time, I feel life is ture and is getting better and better. Although I am still alone and pathetic, I am living a life now!

Hi! So this may be a little strange but hear me out. I come from a culture where relationships are frowned upon. I have been with a girl before but whenever she'd go down on me, my little guy wouldn't cooperate.I just assumed I wasn't attracted to her and things didn't work out between us...

I was on the edge to relapse last night, some sexy video make it a little bit difficult to control myself, though I made it at last, I spent a lot on money on it, that is making my life even harder. But maybe it is a good chance for me to go 90 days straight, I've made 10 days, why don't I just...

Today I feel terribly sleepy, I tried coffee, tea...everything, but it seems that they doesn't work at all, so there is no chance for me to do PMO, that's a good thing, I am happy that I make through another day in this way.

Yeaterday I got a big challenge, I went out for dinner with a girl that I used to like, we haven't contected to each other for a very long time, and she ask me to eat with her last night. Good news is, I didn't relapse after doing this, I didn't even fell meserable because I found that I do not...

I am beginning to get some enthusiasm on my job again! I can never imagine this could happen, when I was on PMO, even surgery couldn't make make me feel excited, only more depression and tiredness, but it seems that I am getting back into my life, the cloud is beginning to leave, the sense of...

I can never imagine that I have been clean for 9 days!Is that a milestone for me? Definitely yes, and all of sudden, the picture in the film“Forrest Gump” came into my head, now that I made it through to hill, why don't I just keep running and make it through the sea, love that movie, maybe...

Way back in the days that I watched porns everyday, I feel like an alien when I walk on the street, but today I feel like normal when I went out for dinner, a little bit surprised, but still, glad!

Finally get a little bit relief at day 6, hardly can I imagine that I can make it for such a long time, I relapse at the exactly other day back in the old time, I think I am beginning to have an urge to become responsible for my life, let's make it all the way to day 90!

What surprised me is that I feel better even slept just for one hour last night, although I still feel pathetic when I work, I don't have so much desire as before, and the weired thoughts about porn didn't come up today, maybe keep being exhausted is the solution of PMO at the very begining of...

I am exhausted today, having less sleep, become annoyed easily by the daily stuffs. There are so many stimulations, even when I am being alone, some weired thoughts will pop up and make me feel guilty, I think I am severely ill!

3 days past just like a million years! days without PMO are becoming longer and tougher. To me, this rebooting challenge is the only new year resolution that I make in 2019, Since I began to do that stuffs, my misearble life started, and I am an adult so I can't rely on my parents. I want to see...

Although at the very begining of rebooting, I found that the most dangerous moment always comes with the arrival of night, especially when you are alone. The carving makes you feel like watch some porns after a day. So please be cautious, be aware of what you are thinking at this very moment...

this is the first day of reboot, although it is the begining of the other day, I keep myself busy throughout all day, but I did some nonsense in the afternoon, that's a pity today.

Just before I write this post, I have gone through a miserable day, and I di PMO for several times in one day. That's the moment I want to quit these annoying stuffs. I want to use this post as my sign of rebooting, and I hope I can be strong enough to get through the hard time.

Ok, I'm on a different phase in life. I'm not having one night stands, got a nice girl, Im finally studying what I love (mechanical engeneering) and I feel, with almost certainty that PMO is bringing me down..... I dont want to make this very long but my idea is to just cut the PM and leave the...

Good day, to everyone reading this I'm glad to announce that I have now registered to be a part of the movement and the community. I am in a very difficult time right now because of my "Issues" that some of you might know of. Therefore, I am here to regain control of who I am, what I want and...

I wrote this a couple minutes ago as an answer to an old thread, but I guess it can be its own thread for any of you guys wanting to read about it. I got into trans porn to the point I don't even know those female pornstars you mentioned, I think Sasha Gray is the only female pornstar I can name...

Hi I am on day 32. Started rebooting to cure my ED & I can say that now I have improved significantly (approx 70%)in these 32 days..but PE is getting worst & worst...I can hardly stay for 20-30 seconds during continous penetration..even after start & stop, I can hardly make it up to 2-4 mins. In...

Help me out pls, im rebooting, i did running, work out, gym stuff, i have seen benefit from rebooting that i dont want to lose, but the urge keep coming and im edging with out PO to fight that, any harm to my penis or my brain or smth? Sorry for bad english