Hey everyone how’s everybody doing? This is my 1st week on nofap and I will continue to move on so that I can quit on addicting to watching porn while masturbating so I can have better life and be a good person without the porn and masturbation addiction.
Hi Congratulations for your streak! Keep going and stay away from porn. I'm also in the same way to beat this addiction. Tomorrow, I will achieve 1 week too.
I'm right on your tail guys! (day 5) Similar goals and trying to fix my brain. Been a while since I've made it to 1 week and I'm not going to let myself mess this up again. Starting to learn how to stop myself from going further after seeing a trigger now
Thank you everyone for trying to stay away porn for atleast a week or more and I hope I can keep it up to stay away porn so my brain recovers as long I stay away the addiction.
Great job on making it through first week. The first week was always brutal for me with guilt and depression and would get better. Here are some tips I have gathered for the long haul because the temptation will still come at your weak moments. I relapsed twice after 6 months Or so. I’m currently 6months and 9 days or so free from that relapse. I have learned a lot in my struggle with porn. One, is what triggers me. A lot on the internet and tv triggered me(seeing beautiful women). I believe my last relapse was super bowl halftime show, I didn’t relapse that night, but like a week or two after it, but those images stayed with me and I kept wanting more, even after 6 months. I also researched And watched videos of the science behind it all and it releases dopamine In your brain and scary how the addiction can become when I thought I could control it. the ways I feel like I have conquered it for good was that I had my wife put in an adult filter password that I don’t know what it is(it could be a friend if not married). It’s my backup plan when having a bad day and can’t see the adult sites. I also don’t watch shows that could trigger me and try to turn my head if I think a scene is coming. More importantly though, I have really grown in my faith with God. I have listened to so many sermons on temptations and that has helped me tremendously. Rick Warren and Greg Laurie are 2 of my favorites and have helped me a ton!! I learned about all the garbage I was putting in my mind. The analogy was how we have to watch what we eat, we can’t eat McDonald’s fried food every meal without bad consequences, the same thing applies with what you consistently put in your mind. “Above Inspiration” YouTube videos are great too. Give them a listen, it’s usually 10-20 min long. Hopefully this helps and try and learn as much as much as possible.
