I am 28, married for almost two years and want to give up porn. I have tried at different times to quit but always find my way back. What I have read here has already helped me through a craving and I'm feeling inspired! Anyone else at day one too?
Bro I'm 28 years old and at day one too! I have a MASSIVE porn addiction, I know it's bad for me but I just cant seem to shake it. I think this site will help me quit porn forever, thats my goal anyway. I know I can do it because I've kicked alot of bad habits. 2 years off drugs, alcohol and ciggarettes. that took me a long time time and lots of hard work to do but I did it and stuck to it. I'm prepared to take serious measures to shake this thing
28 here trying to make my first full week. Not easy for me but this site has helped a lot. Only been trying for maybe 2 weeks now. Just think tomorrow will be your day 2. I have had to accept things at half a day at a time. Reading and Posting has helped me maybe it will help you also. You are not alone.
I'm not free from O-- I am free from PM. There was an instance in the last 50 days where I orgasmed in my sleep. Other than that, I feel pretty good. I believe that I can make it to 90 days.
Right on brother day two and my body is meta morphing, fighting insane urges to watch p. Must stay on nofap until urges go away lol
Hi. Welcome to forum! Make sure you create a personal journal thread in Reboot Logs section and blog there on a regular basis. As well as just generally be active participant in various forum discussions. I recommend this to everybody new here because it's the major thing that helped me when I was first starting. Just lurking on forums, reading and learning is great. But it usually is so much more powerful to engage. It helps to keep us motivated and accountable when we are active part of community. And keeps this in front of our minds so we don't forget about importance of it and slip away in our old habits. Sharing is also therapeutic. This is a major reason why AA meetings work so good. But that was developed before internet era. These days we can get most of the same benefits online through communities like this. So don't underestimate the power of active participation. I would also like to suggest you to look into mindfulness meditation. It has helped me personally tremendously to learn how to deal with urges and triggers. It takes a while to get good at it and notice results, so you need to be consistent with it, but once you do it's very powerful. It has been used by sages for thousands of years to deal with various issues of the mind. And in recent decades the science is also catching up to what ancient sages have know for centuries. Meditation these days are widely used as very effective tool by psychologists for treating addiction and by neurologists for supporting recovery of the brain after physical injury. Plus it is generally a great exercise for the brain the same way as jogging is great exercise for the body. You gotta make sure it is proper mindfulness meditation though. "Mindfulness" meditation where we just focus on breath is more like a concentration meditation instead. It works too but differently and not as powerfully in my experience. Real mindfulness meditation however trains you to accept your urges by understanding the nature of them by observing them, not just suppress them by concentrating on something else instead. It makes you comfortable with them. And once you accept and become comfortable with them there is no need to get rid of them, so there is no need to PMO. Only reason why we PMO is because that urge, that itch in our crotch is uncomfortable, we wanna get rid of it. And then after PMO we have our release. Or we simply want pleasure. And inability to have that pleasure makes us uncomfortable. But if we accept that we can not have pleasure then resistance is gone and there is no reason to PMO. Acceptance and mindfulness is the key. Check out this Ted talk on acceptance and mindfulness practice, it gives a good idea of what's it's about when it comes to philosophy. The mindfulness practice as described by psychologist in a the video can be used by itself but ideally should be used as supplementation to your daily sitting meditation. Sitting meditation I personally practice and recommend to people is as explained by meditation expert in this YouTube playlist. If you don't like the monk or want other method there is this awesome smartphone app called Headspace for guided meditations. Wish you lot's of strength and success in your reboot journey!
