Video games and reboot

Well, the benefits could be that it would keep you distracted from your urges and be time consuming.

I have been playing video games during my month of NoFap so far and It has been quite effective, at least for me. War games is more or less the only games I play, Call of Duty, Battlefield and Ghost Recon are the games that has helped me distract my urges, as well as helped me to avoid relapsing.

Games that has little to none sexual or nudity content is the best choices I would say. I have stayed away from GTA, Cyberpunk 2077 and Saint Row because all of them contains either sexual, nudity or both.

The reason why I have chosen to stay away from them is because I have already one time relapsed because of a sex scene in Cyberpunk. It wasn't because of the sex scene itself, is was that it reminded me of porngraphic material I have watched lately and my urges became to strong for me to handle.

 

Congratulations if you don't feel any urges or having any labido, must be a nice feeling. I wish that I were in your shoes!

With "benefits" what do you wanna feel? Is it that you don't feel any enjoyment or losing focus or both while playing games? If that's it, I would probably blame your dopamine for it. If your dopamine levels are stuck to an old habit and it hasn't been able to reset completely to normal, your brain probably not releases as much dopamine for gaming yet.

 

I try and stay away. Total waste of my time. And once I start playing a game, I can spend all night. And then think about the game during work hours, etc.

 

Ohh, It sounds like a video game addiction? Well that's not fun if that's the case. I have also suffered from a video game addiction in my younger days.

Well, I suppose you have to do the same with the video games as you did with the porn addiction, stay away from it most likely or at least play less every week and find other things to enjoy than just thinking about video games.

 

Just be mindful of how often you're playing. Do you often play longer than you intended to? Does gaming interfere with any of your other responsibilities or goals?

Video game addiction is a thing because the games work on the human dopamine system in similar ways to porn (not quite as severely as porn, but those games are designed to keep you as heavily engaged as possible, for as long as possible). So just be thoughtful about how much of your time and attention they're consuming.

(Note: between 11-15 years old, I don't think I had a single hobby outside of playing Nintendo (the original 8-bit NES). It's insane how much of that time in my life was given to video games. And those were just 8-bit games! Today's games are massive worlds, take hundreds of hours of gameplay to beat them, hyper-realistic graphics, and can be networked with friends ... I'm so glad I got gaming out of my system before that stuff came along)

 

I do have a video game addiction
I fantasize about playing games. Even today after having abstained from games since September of last year

 

Sorry to hear that, brother

It's always hard when an addiction takes control over your mind and makes it hard for you to stop. Were you addicted to a specific game/games before you abstained from it?

Are you addicted to both video games and PMO right now?

 

I used to play all kinds of games. Anything from MMOs to Minesweeper.

At the moment, abstaining from both games and PMO. 140 with no PMO and over a year since my last PMO "binge".

I stopped gaming in September of last year. Gaming is more insidious because it seems "less harmful".

 

Dont try to quit back gaming. Focus on nofap. No one will understand besides you .

 

If you want to sever all dopamine then you should cut off gaming. But I'm not sure it's a very good idea. I mean it depends if you can replace it by something else to keep you busy and happy. Gaming helps me when I'm horny to stay focused on something else. I do try to game at the end of the day and consider it as a reward for what I did.

 

I also tried gaming but didn't work for me. It also reignites the neurons that connected to p*rnography in your mind.

 

Porn increased dopamine more then gaming so calm down with this statement.
I play puzzle for example is it equivalent to watching porn my dear brother . I dont think so you would even call it too boring

 

If you really hit 144 days maybe this case is not acceptable for you.

 

Yes i do i feel every edge of the flatline.

 

Yeah for me playing videogames is kinda similar to edge on pornography. When I finish a session of gaming I always wants to edge on porn, I get strong urges. Worse games are things like Hoi4, CK3, Civ5, ecc, strategic games. These are studied to make you dumb and addicted like gambling, but other games aren't better. This is the reason why I am free from Videogames since 13 october 2023. The only games I've played are chess on phone and Majhong on Nintendo DS lol.

 

Exactly, I'm also free from videogames since Sep 15 '23. But even little noises are enough for me to PMO (like happened yesterday). But the solution is, %99 internet free life %1 is your work, documents etc. You can DOWNLOAD not watch from the web, your series films etc.