I've been on this journey for many years and have yet to get above 33 days. I have had some minor successes followed by multi day relapses. I was inspired by this post: https://forum.nofap.com/index.php?threads/2nd-attempt-starting-tomorrow-25-3-2020.271202/ I'm ready to kick this thing. For myself, my girlfriend, my career, my family, friends, customers, mentors, for others who have never succeeded before, and so I can start doing things I previously thought were impossible and live the life I've dreamed of. This is the first thing on my list. I will provide an update every day until I reach 90 days.
Heyyy welcome to the NoFap forum : ) It's nice to see you here fighting the good fight alongside us! First let me go ahead and drop some helpful links for you: Getting Started Guide / Forum Rules / How to Use the NoFap forums/ Glossary/ NoFap Panic button / Set up your day counter / Rebooting Resources/ About NoFap/ Support NoFap Here is just some advice: First and foremost please take a look at each section in the forum, there might be something(s) you may find of big help to you. Feel free to post there :+) Then secondly I just advise you to be active on your profile(as there a few active people in the profile section). Please start by choosing an avatar and then make daily status posts to show you're active and needing support/encouragement. They've also got a neat little feature that shows freshly posted statuses for all users to see. People will find your profile and give you encouragement/support. Theres a portion of people who love communicating in the profile section..(it should be and is )mostly spportive talk but it doesn't hurt to deviate from supportive talk. It would be great to have you join in and support others in the threads, profiles, and journal. Make sure and be grateful for the help you received and give some help after receiving some. Invest in some people's journeys. We could always use your help and in return you shall receive some as well! Thirdly, You should also highly consider creating a public journal/log (in the appropriate section for you) and write about your days in more depth for us members to follow along your journey and offer support to you by way of posting in your journal. Last but not least: Good luck on your journey here, make sure to really give it a try with all your heart!
you got this!!!! Nowhere to go but up (sorry for the pun!) Get ready to live man. Life really is worth living. Living free.
2 days in. No big urges so far. Started meditating in the morning. Thanks for the encouragement @Bee V
3 days in. Some very minor urges here and there. Have caught myself looking at news a lot in the mornings (30+ mins), which seems like a dopamine related activity. I aim to replace it with reading a book.
Day 4, minor urges. Got up early, looked at the news less and meditated. I'll try to cut out the news sites entirely tomorrow.
Day 5, I had something disheartening happen at work and had some medium-strong urges following that. I noticed that trying to "stop" reading news hasn't been effective so I'm going to switch to a "doing" mindset. I was able to meditate and read again today and I will look to do that again tomorrow, without focussing on stopping anything. Let's see what happens!
Day 8. Had some sexual dreams the last 2 nights, including one where I thought I had watched porn and relapsed. It was nice to wake up realize that I hadn't. Some small urges. The journey continues.
Day 11 & 12 Was alone for a period of time during day 11 and had some thoughts and urges. Loneliness and having difficult tasks to be done can be triggers for me. Especially when combined. Will be keeping it in mind and looking at alternatives for stress relief. I'll have an extended period of time of being by myself coming up in a weeks time.
Hi, welcome to the community I would recommend you to stay in touch with members and read their success stories. You may also learn tricks to avoid the short-term pleasure and to face the temptations. Be AWARE of your habits and control what you see and what/who you spend your time with. It's also important to limit the usage of social media. In addition, never be free! Use your free time as much as possible and do sports, exercise, attend classes, etc. This video contains everything that you need to know about porn addiction. Lastly, here is a collection of ways to deal with the urges which worked great for me. ֍ You got this my friend ֍
