It's all about the dopamine

Don't you think that there is nothing special about the nofap besides the dopamine deprivation?

While you're abstaining from PMO your brain adjusts to low dopamine levels by making it self more sensitive to this neurotransmitter. This way you start finding more pleasure in ordinary activities.
This point of view fits with many success stories where people, while on nofap, start to exercise and do other healthy stuff. They do it with less effort because of greater dopamine sensitivity.

So you might say that PMO makes your brain numb to dopamine because you're flooding it with it.