willpower and addiction

Hello all, Hope you are doing well. After every long streak (2,5 months this monday) I get a setback. It is always a trigger combined with FOMO. And friends who don’t support NOFAP and motivate me to fail. In my life a lot has happened im only 29. Everytime I am edging I think my life is...

Can Willpower be effective to break free from porn's grip, or do we need something else?

So the Nofap method is all about abstaining from porn as much time as possible until you either relapse or die. But i failed to find an actual root solutions to this addiction. Many addictions have root solutions, that will end up with your mind free of the need to 'fix' yourself with a hit of...

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...

Even since starting nofap 6 months ago, and even tho i had many relapses and failures, i can’t help to notice that Nofap is slowly changing my life to the man i want to be. thanks to Nofap i have managed to : read books and prior to that i have never finished reading a book other than school...

I don't actually know if mentioning name of the book is allowed here, so I will mention in the comments if it is OK and anybody wants to know. Anyways, here are some keypoints which I noted that I think are useful to know while recovery. 1. Try to notice every decision you make related to your...

Hello, guys! I am now on day 2 without PMO, my biggest streak was almost 17 days, but I will spend 90 days without PMO this time, I CAN do it! But there is a problem; when I study I can't concentrate on my studying for school, I don't have willpower and determination since last year, when I...

How often have you told yourself that you won't fail again?

There are a lot of "resources" on the Internet (actually just the things that rise to the top of search engines) that seemingly want to diminish the role of willpower in addict recovery. I want to throw out the following: * Your attitude towards the role of willpower and addiction is based on...