I dont masturbate out of horny but stress

Stress is a major killer. My gym workouts and Karate are great for that. Working at home makes it tough though.

 

Fapping every 15-16 days is good man, you will make a lot of progress that way and experience a lot of benefits.

I have the same problem, that I often fap because of stress and not because I really want to look at porn. I mean if your goal is to get to 90 days or even a month and you're having urges early on, it's going to be stressful, especially when you want to do nofap to get a gf.

The way I combat this is by trying to get as far as I can, it's way less stress that way. You can tell yourself you can fap/view porn on the condition you must really want to, when it gets to that point there isn't much you can do anyway besides delay the inevitable.

It's very difficult to go from watching porn multiple times a day to complete abstinence, in fact I'd say it's impossible. Suppressing urges/actively trying to abstain is an unnatural thing to do, it's only in the modern day age that it becomes necessary because of the internet and access to porn.

Fapping once you don't go back to square one, you experience a slight hangover, and a small setback in terms of benefits. Really it is when you are fapping multiple times a week to porn over a long period of time that screws you, and it takes a while to recover from this.

All you can do really is try and keep things to an absolute minimum, fap only when you really feel like it, and you're gonna look at porn only look at one image and get it over and done with as soon as possible to keep things to a minimum.

 

I struggle with this a lot too. Mostly using nofap to self-medicate (thats the term for it) my panic attacks and mental breakdowns. its real bad. and my PMO addiction is so bad right now I wonder if its better to replace with a drug addiction to self-medicate that way....only Ive read on here that people just combine those and yuck, I def dont want to do that. so "at least" im only PMO-ing to handle stress / anxiety. but damn, its bad, because I use to to medicate constant chronic pain condition too..

one thing that helps me is making a list of alternatives. I actually wrote it all down and put it somewhere I could see by my computer. cause our brains default to PMO as the "rescue" when there are other things to try. The more we do nofap the more our dopamine receptors wont be so fried and those other things will juice us up more easily (in a healthy way). all addictions make us lose interest in what we (used to) love. Im trying to get those back.