Hello First Time Here

I started this when I was a teen.
If you're addicted to porn, the urge is much stronger after a shorter amount of days than when it is when you're just quitting masturbation.
Horniness becomes a constant companion. But so does confidence. You become eager to talk to people and compliment them. Life begins to feel magical. There is a exhilarating feeling every moment. You're full of energy.
But this is when I start to fail, because I cannot sleep when I feel that way. When I'm trying to fall asleep, I keep thinking about temptations and it makes it hard. Having a very well worked sleeping schedule is a huge help when you're doing NoFap.

 

Not very much changes,
Maybe sensitivity goes up due to lack of stimulation but other than that its still same old you.

 

First of all, if you are an addict - you can not stop and need an intervention. There is no further discussion on this, addiction is not a unicorn, it is when individual can no longer control their behavior.
If you are still eating food, brushing your teeth and fulfilling your obligations as a human being - you have a habit you do not like, you do not have an addiction.

If you want something in your health to improve - there must be something wrong first.
People addicted to alcohol actually develop health problems, their body becomes unhealthy and it is clearly detectable with medical tests. They are malnourished and dehydrated most of the time and have huge toxicity load on the liver.
Same goes for abusers of other drugs, they neglect the body become malnourished and that develops in to health problems.
When we take real addicts and get them clean - they feel so much better because they have good nutrition and body recovers.

So unless your pornography "addiction" causes you to not eat well, not sleep well and not hydrate well. You will not see much benefit and then it is not an addiction to begin with.

People feel as they say "much better" if given sugar pill, and told it will make you feel great. Same thing happens here.

You came here for people to tell you what wonderful effects you should feel, instead of saying - I will post what I actually felt
Be objective, do not fool yourself.

 

I believe he lacks a philosophy of life. He comes off as one that views life solely corporal and biological. Does your physical body change, not much. Does your emotional and spiritual/philosophical body change? By leaps and bounds!

 

You have very strong expectations for what should be happening to you. You seem to have very clear picture about what is happening and what mechanisms are involved. Why did you then ask what to expect?

When research was done on how smokers handle long flights, very interesting discovery was made.
Since you cant smoke on the plane when you go on it - you will only smoke when the flight is over.
So scientists expected that, since smokers are addicted to physical substance(nicotine) as its levels dropped overtime, people would get an urge to smoke, and with longer flights that urge would get stronger and stronger.
They asked people to rate how much they wanted to smoke throughout the flight, and results were puzzling.
People on 3 hour flights did not have significant changes to their desire to smoke throughout the flight until right before landing.
People on 9 hour flights did not have significant changes to their desire to smoke throughout the flight until right before landing.
To add to this, submariners go underwater for weeks and often forget they smoke but as soon as they surface - they have the urge to smoke.

People rationalize allot about mechanics of how pornography impacts the brain and how is affects "dopamine" and messes with the mood and all this stuff and as result suffer accordingly.

You came here to hear how amazing you should be feeling, not to find out how it actually feels. That is very bad habit to have.

 

I support you 100%, improve your life and stop using pornography but do not expect that it will change your everything or improve your health and make you something wonderful.
That is all, be realistic.