My longest ever streak has been just 2 weeks. Although it isn't the best streak I was amazed at how much benefits I got from managing to abstain. I have struggled with this addiction since I was 11 years old, masturbating & watching porn almost everyday. As I am a heavy user of porn and fapping, the benefits kicked in very fast as my body was not used to this new change, I have attempted nofap before many times but never got a streak this long. Within the first week I noticed: • A huge increase in energy • Higher physical strength • Better mood • No depression • Excitement for life Week 2: • Clearer thinking • Very high sex drive • Women attraction • Increased motivation • Confidence (closer to the last few days I was able to confidently approach attractive women and start a conversation) Unfortunately my streak came to an end as the built up sexual energy and extreme horny feelings lead me to lose control and relapse. I experienced these benefits and began to enjoy my life and cannot wait to experience them again and begin nofap & achieve my goals
Well I went 75 days NoFap when I was 19 and still didn't experience that much difference but me not masturbating and watching porn instead of masturbating and watching porn
I don't think I'm really addicted to porn or masturbation because I was just masturbating once a day and I don't even need to watch porn
I lapsed the first time for 2 weeks as you did. Now I am at 108 Day. Keep it on and you will be fine. It just WILL.
This is how I’ll explain your growth: Your body had time to restore itself physically so after 7 days your body has more energy and given that you feel more energetic it led to you being more excited for new activities than pmo and you have better mood as a result. Given your usual usage of p and m,you became more horny yet because you did not give in, the usual chemical rush doesn’t come thus you can think clearly. You probably decided to want real women than images so you were more motivated and given your one week success you were more confident of meeting people, thus you approached women and attracted them as a result of your confidence. This is my take so it could be wrong. But, you said you relapsed due to feelings. To avoid relapse, you can stop what you’re doing and take deep breaths. Since to do p and m to relapse, you must have a strong memory where you felt good from doing it and the feeling(horniness) made you motivated to do it more automatically than your logical thought would have wanted. So deep breaths stops you from being occupied with your memory and feelings, and when you calm down then move to a place where you won’t be likely to indulge in pmo(a place with no access to your materials like another room with no computer or your smartphone) and then you think about your benefits, why you wanted to stop pmo and resolve yourself not to fall into the trap. You can do this every time you feel an urge.
2 week and you just started that impressive, but realize that those are not benefits, thats just your normal mental state, but because of pmo we were are tired and in a loop, so we got used to our tired self thinking its the normal us, theres no such thing as benefits, only freedom.
like it still overall gets better for sure, even if there may be a few days to a week of flatline. I made it over year on nofap, and gotta say it felt better and better the longer I went overall; still there will be the odd dark day every so often.