Hey guys, Sorry for my poor english but please, share what you think makes one sucessful in this nofap journey with me... I'm 22 now, and have been fighting porn addiction since I just met my current girlfriend, when I was 16... So yeah, it has been a long road until here and I managed to reduce my porn usage drastically, anyway, hadn't been able to completely stop it until now. I'm currently in day 20 in my reebot but there's something different with me this time. In all this 20 days, I hadn't have any urges to watch porn. In fact, I haven't really considered watching it at all. So by this experience I'm having now, I would say that giving up porn is pretty easy. BUT HOW CAN IT BE? I've been fighting porn for almost 6 years and it had never been easy to get rid of this shit. What really made me get into this mindset is that lately I was having problems to have sex with my girlfriend due to weak erections and the last time I relapsed was really the worse of all.. I watched porn for over 2 hours in the middle of the night and hadn't been able to sleep. The next day I went to work looking like a fucking zombie and really depressed... After that I got really freaked out about watching porn again and haven't considered it anymore... Anyway, I would like to understand what makes one get into this mindset. Also, if someone felt something like this as well please tell me how it was. All the best guys
May be you started reboot after a heavy binging. Don't assume it's going to be easy all the while. Strong urges can appear at any moment and urges can be felt up until 6 months of reboot.
I am glad to see you are writing all this down. Probably every person who has done P, has binged and felt miserable the next day. After a period of abstinence, they forget how bad it was, but they remember the dopamine thrill and they return to it. Even better than writing about it would be pictures of how bad you look and feel. Hope you won't go back and that you've had your last P overload. Your disgust should help motivate you through your reboot process.
Hey my friend, Yes, I'm aware of that and I'm keeping myself motivated to quit porn even though I haven't felt any urges lately. My biggest score was 63 days of porn free and all of sudden I relapsed because I got too confident in my will power... All the best for us.
Hey my friend, First of all, congratz for your 43 days of porn free... Would you mind to tell me how has you felt during this reboot? Has it been hard and you need to control yourself a lot or you haven't felt any urges... All the best and hope I can get to where you are!
I've had urges, but I am a bit on the other side of the hump; Saturday, I will be 68. I am beginning to count the things that I will probbably never do again, and I had begun to wonder if getting another erection should be added to that list. I had heard about PIED, but that couldn't be me, but now it is obvious that it was. When I woke up on day 4 with some morning wood, I was motivated. When I get an urge to watch something, it is just that,just an urge. It is something that could really set me back. Like picking a scab off a wound that is healing well, I could do it, and it could bleed, and I would be back where I was, or it could get infected, and I would have real problems. When I recognize an urge, I take a good breath, think about possible consequences, and get busy with something else. I also conciously avoid situations and triggers; right now, my door is standing open, my screen is visible from the door, and my hands are on the keyboard. I wish you great success.
