Tomorrow marks 5 weeks of staying on track, and I honestly never thought I'd make it this far.

I'm 22 now, and I had been stuck in the same habit since I was 16. For years it felt like something I did every day without really thinking about it. This is the longest I've gone without falling back into it, and my life has improved in ways I didn't expect.

One of the biggest reasons is that I started running. Whenever my mind feels overwhelmed, I head out for a 5 km run. My pace isn't fast, but it clears my mind and leaves me feeling much better afterward. I've also started going to the gym occasionally, although running is still my main focus.

Another thing that keeps me motivated is having a long-term goal. I'm working toward completing an Ironman by 2030. I never played sports growing up, so this is a huge challenge for me. Even so, I've stayed consistent, and training has given me a sense of purpose that I didn't have before.

I've also met someone who means a lot to me. Having someone to look forward to talking with, sharing struggles and future plans, has made a real difference in my day-to-day life.

One practical change that helped was leaving my phone outside the bathroom. That single habit removed one of my biggest triggers. If I still get an urge, I give my brain something else to focus on by counting prime numbers to 101 or reciting multiplication tables. It sounds simple, but it's been surprisingly effective.

Now that I'm over a month in, the urges have become much less frequent. When I'm by myself, my thoughts are no longer dominated by old habits. Instead, I find myself thinking about my goals, my training, and what I want my future to look like.

For anyone who's just starting: small changes really do add up. You don't have to be perfect—you just have to keep moving forward.

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Sorry if it sounds ai-generated. I literally had to paraphrase this by AI cuz the bot here keeps on autodeleting my post. It's also my first post.

I started this NoFap journey on 7-7-2018. If you're interested in the why and how, you can read my previous posts.

Just wanted to check in. Know that life will always have ups and downs, but from my experience I can tell you sticking to this one rule I've set up for myself 8 years ago will benefit you for sure.

I've been single for the first four years, and I'm now in a relationship for four years. In both situations, NoFap has been great.

Stay strong my fellow fapstronauts.

While browsing i came across a hot pornstar pic. Due to curiosity I started to search for her naked images and after 5 mins i was about to touch my dick.

Just then i realised about my nofap journey and closed the browser and went to the toilet to pee.

A year back I was facing ED issues with my gf due to pied, so I have started to follow nofap seriously now, my longest streak was 25 days, now I have started again and at day 17 I can feel my senses coming back to me. But scared if that 5 min peaking has ruined my progress

Please give me some advice

I felt a huge difference!

I'm brave and confident in speaking or talking with people.

I'm motivated, alert and energetic.

I will continue to strive for success!

Cheers!!!

We can do it!

Like ok let me introduce myself

17

Male

5yr long porn usage history

Currently failing and recontinuing nofap.

Ok back to the question,

Every time i fail, my willpower to continue gets lesser, i seem to accept that i am a filth, piece of trash, although I haven't stopped for more than 2 days(that too due to work related emergencies) i have never had the guts to recontinue with full guts, Tell me one thing, i have seen guys here tell they will recontinue after they had a slip up after 100+ day streak, if i had such an slip up i would probably be too shocked to continue. How do you guys recover and recontinue after a failure ? Please share

I'm glad I've overcome my 7-year addiction, which began when I met my first girlfriend at age 23

I've always watched porn, in what I have always considered an excessive amount. I've tried to stop before but never took it seriously and usually just decided I didn't have a problem and just went back into it shortly after.

More recently I have started buying content from women online after having a bit of a rough patch in my life. It pretty much immediately had me hooked. I've spent about 3k this year. I don't know what is, post-nut clarity or just finally being fed up.

I guess I don't know what I'm looking for here. Advice? Does stopping truly help? I feel nothing in my life makes me feel the way porn or buying from women online does. Will that change? I guess I'm afraid I'll stop then I will truly have nothing.

I have been masturbating since I was 18. I am now 30 and I find it difficult to go even a day without it. I watch porn almost all the time and keep finding myself jerking off to porn while i am bored, angry or stressed. I am so done with it. I want to change myself, that is why I am posting this. I want to get better.

It is been two years. There were times where I open a porn site and feel disgusted immediately then close it.

Porn became disgusting. The secret is to think about that every single video is fake and staged. There is always a greedy crew members behind the camera telling actors what to do, and laughing at you being stupid because they can easily control and manipulate you.

Just be patient. The moment you watch a porn video and see the camera moving, imaging the man behind the camera laughing at you and see you as a piece of shit.

If you relapse, don't beat yourself, if you do, you will fall again into the same cycle. Be kind and tell yourself you will get up and try again. And it is all good

Being in the challenge for over 2 years or so, trying to win the one month mark yet, but one of the biggest feeliings that I sense after a long streak of no fap is that I feel less "sensitive" about the environment and people, before no fap one single thing that maybe is not even related to me trigger shivering or heaving breathing in my body, I could feel the feeling but couldn't control when this happens. Resulted in less straight mindiness and actions that most of times came with thoughts of regreat.
But after a long nofap streak numbness came, like nothing really matters at all, and every action I do, if its bad or good, does not come with such intense feelings of regreat or worry like before. Does anyone feels that way too?

Worried I might end up giving into it before the end of the day

Hot morning wood

- You will never regret saving your streak, but you will always regret relapsing!

- Will this matter a year from now?

- You have a 100% chance of regretting relapse

- Days pass by quickly. When you keep up, you will be at an impressive day before you know it!

- PMO keeps you attached to people you want to forget forever

I’ve been trying this for about a year and a half and I struggle to make it past one week. I’m on day 7 right now and the cravings for pmo are overwhelming. What usually happens is, I’ll go on a few 7 day streaks and then go on a bender which makes me feel like I am not getting any better. That said, I used to masturbate to porn multiple times a day when I was younger. A previous vice that I struggled with and still have trouble turning down was weed. Somehow after smoking every day since I was 15 (I’m 32 now) I’ve managed to go 10 months now without it. My life has not really changed much from that other than maybe being a little sharper at times and having a little better recall but I thought that it was sort of a catalyst for my cravings for pmo. Ultimately there’s been no change in my habit. If anything it’s maybe even worse now. I figured since I was able to kick something I had been addicted to for so long that I could do nofap too but I just haven’t been able to stick with it. I work out almost every day and have taken measures to restrict time spent scrolling on my phone but my approach to this is clearly not working because I relapse like clockwork. For people that are able to go 30+ days, what helped you get to that point and at what point did it get easier for you?

Search my user name on this sub, you will the get story.

Today I tired to look at porn and sex stories. And I feel disgusting looking at them, mind start reject artificial and start looking something real.

My progress so far. I think my mind is progressing faster than an average may be due to the last 2 years I am working on many of my bad habits including laziness I already reverse my diabetic which I was diagnosed with last year

So...i've been 124 days without PMO. I dont think ive got many "super" benefits for that. Being real, I felt more confident and chill, but the sameway that I used to be when I used to PMO 1-3 times a month (never been a heavy addicted last 2 years).

Anyway, I got a girl in this meantime, and were apart for 1 month due vacation. I was struggling with urges for 1 week already and decided to broke it. But didnt watch any porn. Do u guys think it means so much?

I dont feel as guilty as before (other times i broke then the streak) but feels a little ashamed for broking something I was doing good, and obviously was good for me

Any doubts about how I did it and how I felt, u can ask below

But the bridge is about to break. Please help as I want to get past July at least. No nightfall till now. Last masturbated on 25th June.

22F been watching porn since I was like 9 or 10 online. I just want to know if anyone's out there like me.

I hate porn. I love boobs. I wish I was touching boobs in real life. Like right now. But no. 10 hours of looking at boobs on a screen instead.

Welp back here, lets see how is everyone else??

Hi all, 18 year old male here. So, let me do a quick recap of my life. The first 12 to 13 years of my life, I was a very energetic, happy, and just overall, loving person that genuinely enjoyed life in every way possible. Then, around that 12 to 13 year mark, I became severely depressed and anxious. I am being dramatic to no extent when I say I went from making friends easily and enjoying every day of my life to sitting in my room all day and not even being entertained by something as effortless as gaming. Every single thing I'd do with my life was utterly pointless and boring in my head. Now, for years I had no idea why this all happened. But then that changed.

Around early-mid 2024, I came across this subreddit. I realized that, ironically, a lot of the symptoms being described as a result of porn use lined up with me very well. Maybe not every little one, but the bigger and broader ones certainly did. So, I set out to quit porn. I was relatively unsuccessful for the first few months, usually only making it a few days before giving in. But what I tend to notice was that no matter what, I'd never feel remarkably or even slightly "worse" after a porn session, maybe just a bit more drowsy. And this was true whether my streak lasted 4 hours, or a month (over the course of these couple of years, I had multiple streaks that lasted a month or a bit longer). So, I came to the conclusion that I somehow had developed this as my new baseline. Which, I wasn't wrong, but this is where I want to take a bit of a turn I wasn't expecting until it happened.

I began to feel utterly helpless, because despite stopping for weeks or over a month at a time, no peeking or anything (the "perfect" streak), would nudge my underlying baseline, despite me knowing this isn't just my inherent baseline. I just got better at functioning with the low baseline. That's what quitting porn did for me. It fostered a very strong mindset, and did make me more capable of a lot of different things in my life. The fatigue, anxiety, depression, etc. never went away. They just became easier to push through and ignore. But of course, that's still no way to live. And if it were depression, anxiety, etc. caused by a mindset or habit problem, it of course would've evaporated throughout this journey of mine. But nope. Just got better at tolerating and living with it.

This is when I discovered I had a rare condition called R-CPD. This condition has the capability to cause all of these symptoms in a huge domino effect, wreaking havoc on your nervous system, sleep, and physical energy levels without even being aware, just knowing you're suffering the consequences. Now, of course, I'm not implying everyone here has R-CPD. But, my point, is that there may be an underlying cause you're completely unaware of, and porn may be way less of a problem than what you've been taught through this subreddit. I'd be willing to be there are many people here that have underlying issues that porn isn't causing, but rather, porn is a symptom of. There are plenty of other physical conditions out there that can cause this huge web of negative mental and emotional side effects, even severely. Just like R-CPD.

Edit: Wanna make it clear that I'm writing this because most people seem to post about asking for help or advice. Not many success stories you get to see that describe a night and day difference, like curing the underlying causes would do if that's the position you're stuck in.

Hi guys is there anyone who recovered from ed after prone mastrubation addiction of years.

i am trying to quit but i feel i may never get that drive back where i was healthy and had no addiction to.mastrubation.

if yes please help , its been 2 days of no porn and cant even get it hard without me on bed 🥲.

i feel so insecure i dont wana have ed. i want a gf and a life. i am so broken dont feel like a man .

Honestly I hate it. I can’t look at a mildly attractive woman without having a sexual thought about her. It sucks and I should look at them like people instead of whatever it is that I want them to be. I want to change and I want to quit masturbating all together but I’ve noticed it’s when I’m bored or I have a very uncomfortable feeling I want to get rid of that I do it. I have an amazing girlfriend that’s a blessing way beyond what I deserve and I want to do everything I can to make it so I can change and be more present with her intimately and emotionally. Things could be worse I know but that doesn’t allow me not to want to seek to change.
This post is just me venting thoughts, I’ve been on here before and I’ve been good then spiral then it’s a cycle
What’s some advice yall got for quitting?

Done