Hi aron. This is not science but most guys say they struggle with the reboot for between 11 and 40 days, though I have seen guys say they struggle with it for up to 90, and there are guys on here PMO free for over a year who relapse. I think if you can make it 30 days, the withdrawal symptoms seriously weaken. Understand that is a porn free 30 days; if you keep porn in your life, as in your brain, even if not Oing to it, you are prolonging the problem, not fixing it. In order to actually reboot, you have to get sexual thoughts out of there for a while. You have to consciously not have sexual thoughts. That is hard for guys like us. 5 months in and I still choose not to indulge in sexual thoughts, meaning I am still tempted. I do have them, of course, but I don't indulge them, and at this point I am starting to understand they are not triggering me. I won't let them. If you are a daily user, you are probably experiencing minor withdrawal symptoms on a fairly constant basis, as in daily. You are probably experiencing them now, since you are quitting. That is why we use daily; not because we make an intellectual decision to use porn, but because we feel a minor withdrawal symptom that makes us want to scratch that itch. If you are going to quit you have to totally quit and you have to sort of look forward to the withdrawal symptoms. Part of the problem in quitting is that guys do not anticipate that it is going to hurt, that they are going to feel unpleasant physical symptoms but also serious anxiety attacks. Knowing that those are just your dopamine levels coming down and your brain fighting that helps. Our brains love dopamine and hate it when its not there, or going back to pre porn normal levels. I know a lot of guys recommend tools to get through withdrawals, such as working out, walks in the woods, and meditation. But, I know of no one who has come up with any remedy for getting around them altogether; there is some suffering involved. Porn is a drug (well technically, it is the mechanism to release the brain chemical dopamine). You make a decision not to use it, or, you don't. But you cannot get clean with it in your head, so get it out.



Good luck on your journey.

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