Hello people. I have been thinking about this for a few days. I'm 19, 2 months to my 20 aniversary. I have been a smoker since 14-15 daily, I smoked probably half or more pack a day. Most of my family smokes, and none died and many of them have quite a good age and with 0 health problems, my dad for example, 67 years old, smoker for probably 40 or more years, 0 health problems, he quit 2 weeks ago. I am seriously thinking about quit smoking. I will start this night, I have 2 more cigars left in my pack, I will smoke one last time in the street, fully present with the cigar in my mouth, and it will be the last one. I will stop all caffeine consumption. I will no more drink coffee or drinks that have caffeine. It is one of the powerful stimulants and in fact it's a psicoactive drug. I want to end that waking up laziness, that "don't talk to me before my cup of coffee" I think it's true. And more. I want to quit video games. Since very young age, I played videogames a lot. When I was PMOing I played probably 7-8 hours, sometimes daily, and it never helped my in anything. I didn't develop my mental and social skills, and I do get it now. Plus. I will reduce A LOT my internet/tv/social media consumption. I will use social media ONLY to talk to my friends, to see some memes and joke around. Internet I will do positive things, read a ebook for example, I will stop surfing without a goal (this is an addiction). I will start all of this tonight. Since the beginning of my streak I implemented in my lifestyle: - Intermittent Fasting - Cold Showers daily - No Sugar - Healthy food - More exercise - More reading. And this night I will make an effort to stop more things I said before. Lets go!
Woah, that's a lot to handle! I would suggest you to do it step by step, but just make sure you're super determined!
These are all HIGHLY addictive substances to quit all at once! And you’re on the NoFap journey?! In my process I quit vaping nicotine in conjunction so I have experience with that. I will say I was 100% ready- I felt the desire to quit in my gut. I threw away EVERYTHING I associated with PMO and nicotine, and I will say the part where you said that you will just smoke one last cigar worries me, because I’ve seen that “just one more time” attitude turn into a relapse and a spiral. All and all, I think you have good intentions, but set yourself up for success.
I found that it was easier to quit caffeine, nicotine, and weed after I started NoFap. I think NoFap makes it easier to quit other things because when you aren't PMOing all the time, your brain isn't seeking perpetual dopamine surges like it did back when you were fapping.
Its curious. Since I started my nofap journey I began to worry about things that before I didn't "waste" 5 seconds thinking about. Social media for example, they are a cancer, everybody knows that, and now I'm thinking about deleting FB and IG, I'm thinking about living a more "minimalistic" life-approach, quitting nicotine, caffeine and live a simpler life while I maintain some of pleasure activities. It is somehow curious what Nofap can make us do
That's a lot to quit at once. If you can manage it all, salute to you, but I suggest 1 or 2 at a time. My humble opinion suggest you quit smoking and porn, but keep video game. Video games are a filler and time consumer and you will need a filler to fill that void of no porn and cigarettes. Once your done with smoking and porn, then eliminate the video games
I've noticed the same thing. Do you find that even your interests have changed since starting NoFap? The other day, I spent close to an hour deleting old videos from my YouTube playlists that I don't find funny or interesting anymore. It's like my personality has drastically changed in just one year. I used to have a thrill-seeking personality; now I'm more tranquil.
You are right. I relapsed (smoked again) and about caffeine, well, the headaches are f... xD I guess I will try to do 1 by 1. I will try to stop smoke first, I guess I do need to feel the void about thinking of smoking.
If you are done with it, it will be easy to let go. If you aren’t ready, welcome to the hellride of your life. You can do it. One or ten addictions at a time. Never let anyone tell you otherwise. Goodspeed. /BB
