Age 21 – 365 Days

One of my favourite ways to avoid PMO was to read all the success stories on the YBOP website. Kinda long but a year is a long time!: Age 20 – 365 Days I’m 21, and during exams last year, I decided porn would no longer be part of my life. When I tried writing […]

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Imbalanced Decision Hierarchy in Addicts Emerging from Drug-Hijacked Dopamine Spiraling Circuit (2013)

  Mehdi Keramati mail,   Boris Gutkin   Abstract Despite explicitly wanting to quit, long-term addicts find themselves powerless to resist drugs, despite knowing that drug-taking may be a harmful course of action. Such inconsistency between the explicit knowledge of negative consequences and the compulsive behavioral patterns represents a cognitive/behavioral conflict that is a central […]

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90 days – Hard mode: greater confidence, motivation, determination & focus. I know myself better

As most of you, I started fapping from an early age, without noticing, fapping changed my perspective about sex, as time passed by I was needing more hardcore porn than before. I unconsciously jumped from fapping at magazines like Playboy to feeling unsatisfied with 1 fap per day on hardcore porn. I felt like this […]

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Age 28 – 90 days, Q&A – HOCD and social anxiety improved

90 days NoFap, 86 days no orgasm. Edged twice, briefly viewed porn twice (unrelated to edging). Social anxiety, HOCD, and stress immensely diminished. Confidence up, energy up, relationships strengthened, and limitless flirtation with girls. 28 year old male. AMA. [Responses to various forum members who asked questions:] On what day did nofap start to take […]

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What is “the chaser?”

“Chaser” is the term often used to describe intense cravings that follow orgasm, perhaps immediately or perhaps the following day. They likely arise from neurochemical changes naturally triggered by climax. Men often report that the chaser eases over time as the brain finds a new balance during rebooting. For more, read Do You Need a […]

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