Found porn at age 10

If you no longer need to use pornography, it doesn't matter how long it takes.

 

Hello and welcome to NoFap!

Everybody is different and it's difficult to give a guess that will affect everybody. Most agree that 90 days is a good reboot, however, some only needed less time. Some needed significantly more time. The best thing to do is to start now and try your best to stay absolutely clean. Good luck!

 

Hi. Welcome to forum!

Reboot takes 90 days on average. Depends also what type of reboot you are doing. The more stricter generally the faster. I would say go for so called Hard Mode where you do not watch porn, do not masturbate and do not intentionally orgasm even during sex for 90 days.

And 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. It is a great exercise for the brain the same way as jogging is great exercise for the body. Check out this Ted talk, it gives a good idea of what's it about when it comes to philosophy. As far as practical side of it there is this awesome smartphone app called Headspace for guided meditations to get you started.

Wish you lot's of strength and success in your reboot journey!

 

Simple. If you do it when you REALLY don't want to, you're addicted. If you feel withdrawal symptoms such as:

Shaking
Sweating
Irritibility
Head numbness
Mood swings
Prolong arousal
Unwanted thoughts

Etc, then you're likely addicted.