Yesterday I was on the seventh day of my first attempt at nofap. Unfortunately, I relapsed last night and ruined my streak. I had been doing really well - I cut out porn and my urges were starting to become easy to control. But then I took a nap in the afternoon. When I woke up, I was feeling the urges again, but I felt really vulnerable like I just couldn't control myself. Not long after, I relapsed. I'm noticing a trend. Every time I wake up, whether in the morning or after an afternoon nap, I'm much more liable to give into my desires. I just feel like I have no willpower when I'm tired. Can anyone else relate to this?
I've had two MO relapses. Both occurred right after I woke up in the morning. Like resisting most urges, you need to replace with something else. Anything else. You need to get out of bed, even if its the middle of the night, and do something to kill that urge. If its in the middle of the night, I'll get up and exercise until I'm too exhausted to care about fapping and then go back to sleep. If its reasonably close to when I'll be getting up anyway, I'll get up, take a shower and start my day. Make it a challenge if you have too. Beat that urge by running to the shower, washing up quickly, and getting out of the house and into the world as fast as possible.
