Greetings All

Hello,
I am a 26 y/o male and I have been masturbating for 12 years and using porn for 10. That's right, I clicked on the "I acknowledge I am over 18 years old" before I actually was. Of course, that isn't the biggest part of my guilt or shame with this addiction.
I also started smoking weed when I was 13, and have been quit with that since April 2019. The improvements I saw in my life then were amazing, especially emotionally. I had not been able to cry for years until I was done numbing myself.
I hope that the effects of NoFap are just as transforming. I am familiar with the process of rebooting because of my quitting smoking. But the habit is much more ingrained. My relationship with masturbating is also my relationship with people. The first time I ever masturbated it was just me imagining the face and body of a girl that I knew. Looking back I feel a lot of shame, but that was the process for most of my masturbation. All the pornstars that I knew by name were familiar to people that I knew. All the situations I'd look up were familiar to ones that I had sexual fantasies in my daily life.
I'm not quitting because of shame though. I'm quitting because of desire. I want to feel what my brain works like when it is free from this shackling addiction. I started my PMO challenge 9 days ago and then heard of NoFap a few days after. I've been reading an article a day, then started reading the forums this morning and decided that I should register.
I hope all of us can experience the lifted state of being free from addiction. I hope our relationships with ourselves and others are elevated out of sexual dependence.