/r9k/ - ROBOT9999

i did the same before, but i fell back into it.
now i'm getting back to where i was, about a week in so far, and i have good reasons for stopping

congrats
do you feel any better?

Keep it up bro

That's great! God Bless!

I once went 267 days without masturbating and felt no improvement. I also didn’t feel anything when I started doing it again. That can’t be good, right?

>>86363
>>86361 (OP)
Keep it up fellas. I'm in a similar boat and it's fairly tough. Had a 140 day clean streak last year but broke it. Forced myself back into retention this Monday. Doing good thus far.

The biggest tip I can give anyone looking to liberate themselves from porn addiction is to do research into what masturbation does to the body, and remind yourself accordingly of those effects when get an urge to fill the newfound dopamine void. Speaking of, fill that aforementioned void with things you already like doing. After a while your body gets so used to having natural dopamine once more, that you can more easily engage more easily in actions that have a delayed dopamine hit (The fruits of your labor after a long days work, ala exercise or drawing.)

You can get pedantic and read the Coiled Serpent or whatever its called to form a more thorough level of discipline, but it's a bit excessive if you already know damn well how bad the inherent self-degradation of masturbation.

>>86671
when i was on no-goon i had more energy to work out with. gooning literally sucks the life out of you.

>>86673
What made you break your streak? Any advice on how to avoid it?

/calm/

>>86697
I was absolutely hammered off a few pints and decided to get a shower. Said fuck it and had a wank, no urges or anything, just "ah sure, why not?" like a retard. This literally and metaphorically washing away the mental conditioning against urges that I had beat myself into. Since then I've been stumbling to get back into retention proper again, as it's not exactly a headspace your body - wired to breed, or at least do something approximate - will enjoy. But I feel somewhat confidence this time around, and I'm putting my foot down proper on this decision now.

The only reason I'm in any way cocksure now that I'm going to get back on it is because I gave "EasyPeasy" a read last week and frankly it hammered back in what I'd told myself only last year overnight. One of the best pointers I can give for the first few weeks or so, is that whenever you get any urges, just hold your breath and flex your calf muscles until it goes away, or you need to breath again. This both puts your body into a panic mode trying to breath, and directs blood elsewhere, redirecting all bodily function away from your penis. As well as this, don't forget to also tell yourself why you decided to stop in the first place, and why you stand nothing to gain from masturbation. I found that in and around ~80 days last year, my brain was conditioned enough sober as to where it just gave up trying to make me wank, thusly making it so when I got any urges, it wouldn't do anything to my brain. I'd still get hard, more-so than before retention funnily enough, but now without the mental aspect.

>>86708
If you get urges in the shower, i find that an easy way to avoid it is to brush your teeth in the shower. If you shower early in the morning or late at night, its perfectly fine and you won't even consider wanking.

Also try to stop and count to 20 before doing anything. Think if you actually need to wank, or want to wank. Quite often it will just be a natural wave of libido or a random boner, so if you wait and think about it you might no longer have the desire

>>86708
I don't drink alcohol at all so this won't happen to me.
>>86711
Shower arousal thing sounds kinda weird. AGP? Even cleaning my own glans doesn't arouse me enough. I feel urge to goon specifically in the mornings, and it's strong. What to do with morning boners? It's relatively hard for something to arouse me during the day so if I hold it in the morning, I don't goon full day.

>>86712
With morning boners, just don't sit in bed. Get out of bed and get moving. Everybody has morning wood, its part of the hormonal cycle, just ignore it and get going with your day.

Idk how to explain shower arousals, I haven't had them in ages, and even when I did I basically never wanked because I don't want to block the drain. Probably to do with the water being warm, and that I was a 'ooner when I was like 14. Haven't been aroused in the shower for years

>>86716
Yeah, when I'm busy and have to go somewhere right after I get up it's easier. Also noticed that peeing in the morning slightly removes arousal, it's easier to ignore the urge after that.

What improvements do you feel im thinking about going for a month, which i've done succesfully before. SO what changes after 3months?

>>86674
Yeah, but it didn’t really do anything for me either way. I’ve never really been a full blown gooner, doe

>>86708
>>86711
Retention 'teens, how frequently do you have nightly ejaculations? And what do you use to clean it off of underwear?

>>86766
no fap professional here
n1 dont call it retention, because thats a different thing
n2 sometimes i can go a week without, other times it happens night after night after night in a row.
n3 i usually just wash the underwear with hands and then put it in the washing machine

>>86766
i've barely had nightly ejaculations, probably because i still 'oon pretty often unfortunately. I just try to minimise it. I'm not necessarily trying to do it for "retention" either, its because its a bad habit and has a lot more negative aspects than positive. I don't beat myself up about it because theres no point in that, and I struggle to see myself ever stopping permanently unless one day i get a girlfriend (delusions), but if I can keep it down to a minimal amount it isn't as bad. Also, don't use porn to 'oon, a huge portion of the bad effects is from that. Its kinda natural to jack off in a more moderate amount, but porn isn't and it fries your brain
To clean up use baby wipes. Having them in general is good, they're a lot better for wiping your arse than toilet paper, its more sanitary.

>>86789
What do you mean by "pretty often", how often is that?

>>86790
multiple times a week
when I was at my worst i would even do it like twice a day, so this is still an improvement. Im trying to get it down to once a week.

>>86766
Extremely rarely do I have wet dreams. I think I've had a grand total of two in my entire life. Both times I just threw them in the washing machine with the rest of the filthy clothes the day of, no biggie.