How do i stop masturbating? I've noticed when i dont fap for a day or 2 i feel less tired and even more active
Try not jacking off
>>27108384
Just do something else, for fucks sake.
>>27108384
just hold in your ejaculation.
It's your precious life essence and you should not squander it. Your body saps all your nutrients and energy to reconstitute it.
>>27108880
This.
I don't know much about spirituality and chakra's and shit but I am pretty sure masturbating has some kind of negative impact on you.
I am trying to quit, if I can reach 6 months without fapping I will delete all my porn, I have about 4TB of porn and I don't want to delete my collection and then fap a week later you know, 6 months seems like a decent target I figure if I can survive 6 months I can survive until a year.
>>27108951
does it actually have an effect besides placebo tho? I know it will raise your test after a week but then it will go back down again.
>>27108384
>>27108880
https://youtu.be/N1KvgtEnABY
All that no fap stuff was made up by Mormons. You know that right? Not gonna bother digging up the post that explains it all and links everything to a small Mormon fringe group, with sources and everything. I've seen it and I know the truth, that's enough for me. I'm too high to care what you do with your ding dong. But just know that whenever I see someone include quitting fapping as a part of their "self-improvement" plan, I instantly see them as a big fat Mormon cuckboy.
>>27108951
>I have about 4TB of porn and I don't want to delete my collection
You will NEVER be able to abstain if that temptation is still there. I tried it, it was too much, it was only after I deleted my porn folder and even the risque photos in my 4chan folder that I actually felt free. It's like a weight off of my shoulders.
Reading this helped me finally go through with it. It was like I was reading about myself.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/comments/1p40p8/i_just_deleted_my_entire_500_gb_porn_collection/
Good luck.
>>27109150
>made up by Mormons
Semen retention was preached by Taoist masters way back in ancient China.
>>27109052
No idea, but all I know is that I fap way too much and it's highly unnecessary.
I feel that I can cut it out, I used to be addicted to smoking weed but I just made a conscious decision to never smoke it again and I've never touched it since so I figure I might be able to do the same with alcohol and masturbation.
They feel like weeds in my garden, I am am the garden and I can be beautiful but I have this weeds growing in it, constantly growing and they are compulsions, being the weak person I am I immediately give into those compulsions and my body feels like it controls me, well I am trying to turn it around and might become stronger person because of it.
I know alcohol and porn isn't like a hardcore addiction like heroin or something but to me personally they are my bane.
In answer to your question, I've no idea.
>>27109283
>I used to be addicted to smoking weed
its impossible I tried nofap a billion times
ur desire to jack off is too strong, you will never win against it
>>27109342
Think of it as the final boss of your life, just think of your power level if you can defeat it man.
>>27108384
Here are 2 videos which go into the dangers of a porn addiction:
ASAP Science - The Science of a Pornography Addiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ya67aLaaCc
Tedx Talks - The Great Porn Experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU
You're seriously messing with your bodies chemistry by fapping all the time, and if you stop you'll feel much better.
Like someone else said you need to find something to preoccupy your attention when the urge to fap arises. The compulsions to fap are temporary, and if you just tolerate the distress of dealing with the compulsion for a little while it will pass.
You need to find phrases that you can repeat to yourself when the urges come up to encourage yourself to sticking to your decision. You can use things like "I'm tough enough to wait out the urge," "I choose to stop fapping," "I'll be better off in the long term if I don't" and stuff like that.
I'm working on quitting smoking right now, and those things have helped me with that, another thing I do is I chew gum. When you realize you have the urge to fap chew on a piece of gum. It will lose it's flavor after about 15 minutes, and by that point the urge will be gone.
You need to stay optimistic and never say to yourself "It's too hard for me to resist the temptation" instead rephrase such a statement in a positive light such as "I need push myself even more I can get through the next urge." And if you give in and fap for one time in a day don't get disappointed and give up, since there were probably 5 times you had the urge to fap and for 4 of them you didn't give in. 80% isn't so bad and can easily become 100%.
Another thing to keep in mind is no girl would want to date a guy who was addicted to porn, since all she would think he sees her as is IRL fapping material, and you'll be more likely to make friends in general.
Keep yourself busy, get out of your room as often as you can.
>>27109325
I was addicted fella, it used to smell so good and make me feel soo nice, sometimes I think about the smell and miss those times but I spent so much money and got lost my temper when I ran out, I don't want something to have such control over me which is why I quit smoking.
Now I just need to shake the rest of my demons.
>>27109639
4chan is just as bad as fapping, if not worse
>>27108384
Who is the babe?
>>27110637
Good point. 4chan is another instant gratification habit.
>>27108384
Keep yourself busy with shit to do and self-control. That's literally all there is to it.
>>27109639
>and if you just tolerate the distress of dealing with the compulsion for a little while it will pass.
They don't though, I've tried.
>>27108384
The people trying to see you "no fap" are bias. They often have websites dedicated to selling you stuff. Most of it is pseudoscience too.
The truth is, the majority of what you are feeling is your own mental disgust.
Fapping is a natural part of the body. Fapping too much or fapping too little can become problems. But that how it is with overindulging in anything.
Porn can again, be an issue if you let it be.
Like with anything, you just need to learn moderation. Don't let people sell you their theories online, especially since a lot of nofap stuff is from people trying to sell guides and beliefs.
>>27111146
>Like with anything, you just need to learn moderation.
This is the stupid bullshit advice that prevented me from quitting smoking until I finally decided to quit cold turkey, which is the only thing that worked.
I'd rather ask the nofappers for health and quality of life advice desu, and I've never seen them selling anything. The nofap crowd seems less angry and determined to get me to stop fapping than the anti-nofap crowd, which is angry as fuck all the time and absolutely needs me to continue fapping for some strange reason. Like they're going to die if I stop or something.
>"HELP ME HOW DO I GET SELF CONTROOL ITS IMPOSSSIBBBLEEEEE"
Shut the fuck up, all you fucking morons.
Not even one of you realizes what a stupid idea nofap is. All successful men are sexually active.
Now sure, there's a fine line between casual fapping and sex addiction (the latter for 90% of the cases is fapping only), but once a day, for young men up to maybe 25 even more, is absolutly normal AND healthy.
>>27111583
False equivalency, smoking is not the same as fapping.
Also, it was't advice. It was a statement. Like saying going "cold turkey" isn't advice. It isn't advice unless you give a proper strategy on how to undertake it.
I am in no way angy at all. If anything, you are the one showing a lack of control and a unhelpful, accusatory tone.
What I am stating is: that if you go on the majority of no fap websites then essentially they are sporting a load of pseudoscience and trying to sell their guides and beliefs.
If you want to change in your life you need to build the philosophy of self responsibility. The belief that not fapping helps you is simply a placebo, kudos if it helped you but it is not some magical cure. It is as useful as telling someone to "be confident".
I am being realistic in my expectations of life. Moderation, self control are not things you learn over night. They take time of building up more useful routines. But it is a hell of a lot more productive than either fapping too much and feeling a sense of shame and little self worth or nt fapping and filling yourself with pride and self righteousness.
People masturbate. If you feel shit about it then you have to change it. It is difficult to change. You will have stumbling blocks but it is about overcoming mistakes. Cold turkey isn't about overcoming, it is about purging. People that learn self control, make mistakes and get over it are better than those who have to prohibit activities to force themselves not to do something.
I fapped too much and now every time I fap, I get a pain on the right side of my back.
Shit sux.
do c25k
whenever you want to fap, go for a run. runners high is better and lasts longer than an orgasm anyway.
>>27108384
>but but no fap is a meme desu
>but but don't listen to them, fapping away your sexual energy isn't going to do anything
stopped fapping October 2015. My life is finally moving forward.
>>27111682
>im addicted to porn and fapping
>shut up idiot no im not theres nothing wrong with it
>>27111707
>People masturbate. If you feel shit about it then you have to change it. It is difficult to change. You will have stumbling blocks but it is about overcoming mistakes.
If moderation is a viable goal for you, good for you. It's not for me, for a lot of reasons, the main one being that I'll die alone and a khv and any thought related to sex and relationships triggers a whole cluster of feels in my mind that every time lead me closer to suicide.
There's no one size fits all solution to this kind of problem, unless what you seem to believe. Different people, different situations, different solutions.
>>27111884
>the fapshaming continues...
>>27112033
>the fapshilling continues
>>27108951
It's all about moderation, not quitting altogether.
You will end up with 0 sex drive if you dont fap. Unless you have a gf ofcourse, then not fapping is easy.
Once every few days has no bad effect on me but If I do it every day I lose motivation.
>>27109639
None of this bullshit ever really works. It's almost impossible to go longer than a week or so without feeling insane, at that point the 'benefits' are outweighed by the constant nagging sex urge
I do recommend noporn though.
