Is 30 days not long enough?

hi clb,

30 days is good for beginning. when you reach this goal you can extend it.

meditation is very important. read success stories in this forum.

find a hobby which can be your porn-substitute.

you need much willpower in this period. good luck.

 

Great, if u follow ur routine u will succeed. Make sure u follow it everyday.

 

Nope past 90 days and late at night still feeling some small urges to watch porn.

 

Its different for every one. i m almost more than 2 months and still there a urges sometimes even harder. the best method is dont think abt it. we trained our brain to think and see it. thoughts and visuals r the reason of urges and relapse. as far as possible ull stay from these thing as long ull go. throw every sexual material away from ur mind and life if u want to quit. after 90 days try to divert ur mind and body to real things instead of fantasies.

 

It's a great first step, if you follow through with it for 30 days, you'll realize that 90 days isn't that long.

 

If you came to Nofap.com it's probably because PMO had bad side effects on your life... Which probably means you've been fapping for a long time. 30 days is not enough to remove x years of brain conditioning. But as napionder said it's a good first step. Just be aware that urges won't disappear magically after 90 days

 

In my opinion it's not about the streak - as good as that is - but about the lifestyle changes that you make over the course of time. Don't try to do too much at once but have some lifestyle change goals to aim for over, say, 90 days.

 

Good routine.

I guess the question is, "is 30 days enough for what?". As someone who is currently on a 30 day challenge myself, I'll say I don't expect it to be enough to make every single change I want to see, or to completely break the hold that PMO has had on me for the last ~18 years.

That said, I frankly don't know if I'm capable of quitting cold turkey for good right now. I see 30 days as a stepping stone to getting there, though. I've done a 10 day challenge and I like setting goals that I think I can reach. Not easy goals, mind you, but reachable ones. My hopes are to build some momentum, gradually prove to myself that I can do this, and work towards giving it up for good over time. These challenges are the first tangible progress I've ever made towards that end, so I suppose for me, 30 days is enough to feel like I've made progress, and that's the important part.