r/NoFap • • 16d ago

Monthly Motivation Thread NoFap's "Onward October" or "PMO-Free October" 2026 - continue or begin your PMO-Free journey here (see instructions).

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Hello all,

It's that time of the month again! One month is ending, and another is beginning. We hope you've had a good month. But if you haven't, now is a great time to refocus and rededicate yourself to recovery. This is your opportunity to create the new porn-free you!

This month's theme is "onward". Always looking forward, doing something every day to direct your steps in a positive direction, towards your version of sexual health and the person you want to be. Yes, many times we fail and it feels like we take a step backward. That will happen. What's important is that we are facing the right direction and continuing to push ourselves forward, despite the setbacks. Keep moving onward, everyone.

New to NoFap and rebooting? Here are some suggestions:

  • Learn about the website, porn addiction, excessive masturbation, sexual compulsivity, and abstaining from PMO. Read through NoFap's main website to get informed.
  • Read about the basics of rebooting here. Rebooting is the abstinence from certain sexual behaviors to recover from pornography addiction. Read about how porn addiction develops here. Some people go beyond rebooting and into the territory of retention, or sexual transmutation for periods of time, although that is not the main purpose of this subreddit (which is RECOVERY).
  • Consider reading through the free Getting Started PDF from NoFap's website.
  • Download NoFap's in-browser panic button extension that blocks NSFW subreddits too. Download here
  • Decide if rebooting is something that you really want. If you don't buy into the process 100%, you'll probably not make it through the month. If you have decided that you would like to participate, proceed to the next point.
  • Sign up for this month by replying to this submission. It is that simple. State your intention and stick to it!
  • Consider setting up a day counter badge to track your progress.
  • Ask questions and get support by posting on NoFap. Set a goal to remain accountable by making a post daily. Help others. Come here every day and participate.
  • If you need additional support, you can get an accountability partner and document your progress in a daily rebooting journal.

Would you like to participate? If so, please reply to this thread with the following information.

  • Are you not going to allow yourself to masturbate? View porn? Orgasm whatsoever? Not allowing any outlet for sexual release is called "hard mode".
  • How long do you want this challenge to last? By default it is one month, but 90 days is recommended for rebooting.
  • What are your goals?
  • Why are you doing this?

Arriving late? (past the first of the month?)

It's okay! Still state your intentions and don't postpone rebooting based on the day of the month. People can join in at any time to participate.


r/NoFap • • Mar 30 '26

Mod Note: We suggest NOT USING REDDIT'S DIRECT MESSAGES due to porn trolls trying to disrupt the community. Also, please note that some posts are temporarily removed prior to appearing on r/NoFap.

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Hello r/NoFap community members,

Please note that we highly suggest that you avoid using the Reddit direct messaging system entirely, due to porn trolls coming here to disrupt our porn addiction recovery peer support community. Some of these people pretend to be helpful at first, then will message pornography. It's in a similar vein to how a forum on epilepsy was reportedly hacked to display seizure-inducing images.

You can disable direct messages in your Reddit settings by changing "Who can send you chat requests" to "Nobody."

Secondly, please note that sometimes posts are flagged automatically for manual review prior to appearing on r/NoFap.

Due to Reddit’s anti-spam filters and NoFap’s additional filters to control spam and pornography, sometimes genuine posts are flagged as potential spam or pornography. Further, entities within the legacy porn industry have been attempting to de-platform porn addiction recovery forums such as r/NoFap, and we must remain extra vigilant to ensure that rule-breaking posts do not appear on the platform for even one second. If your post gets flagged, please just wait for a moderator to approve it.

Thanks for reading :-)


r/NoFap • • 3h ago

How to deal with this .Please guys reply to this

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Yesterday my onesided love came to office. She came after 1 month as her mother was in icu .

She has already blocked me because I called one day to check on her mothers health

She talked to everyone in office except for me.when i asked her how is your mother she said FUCK OFF YOU PATHETIC PIECE OF SHIT

she talked to a guy who she hates very easily .she talked to her ex who literally used her for sex very easily but not me

I am thinking of blocking her and never talk to her again

I am feeling very sad I never used her ,I never called when I felt lonely .I really loved her .i don't why this happens with me


r/NoFap • • 4h ago

Just reached 30 days of No PMO

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I just hit the 30 day milestone and wanted to share it with you all. It hasn’t been easy, but the discipline is starting to pay off. Focus is up, energy is better, and gotten closer to God.

To anyone just starting out: keep pushing. It is absolutely worth it. Onto day 60 💪💪


r/NoFap • • 11h ago

Question Will I be able to cure PIED?

27 Upvotes

30M that jerked off ~5 times per day for years and didn't have morning woods for years and couldn't do it without porn. It was crazy consumption of crazy videos. Can I be cured? Even with females, I get half hard and not excited anymore. I am in good shape tho, lean with abs, eating healthy in the last three months. The only bad thing is that I go to sleep after 2-3 AM. If you guys have any tips, please feel free to share


r/NoFap • • 4h ago

Journal Check-In Day 68

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Hehe~

I am getting sooo much happy for this


r/NoFap • • 4h ago

Motivate Me I'm not addicted to porns. I'm addicted to the thought of my ex.

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I've been trying to do NoFap but never managed to go past 3 days. Porn and the algorithm that keep flashing me hot girls don't affect me, only my ex does. I don't look at her social media. I'm not even in contact with her. We've been broken up for over a year and a half. Everytime I don't masturbate for more than a day my mind legitimately goes crazy and loops her in my head every second. I'm not exaggerating. It is really every second. I don't know what to do. I've been to therapists, psychiatrists, and they don't help. I've picked up hobbies. It also doesn't help. My eariler post got removed by mod because I went on to describe the state of my mental state right now. That's how bad it is


r/NoFap • • 6h ago

New to NoFap I'm quitting

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I'm 15, male, I've started at 11 to 12 years old. I already tried quitting before, but it never worked, so I figured out it would be easier with this community's help. I always had those habits but since last year, I started to question them. I started to perceive symptoms like desensitization and others. I don't think I will succeed but I'm hoping for the best. Have any tips?


r/NoFap • • 5h ago

Slip-Up Prevention - Urgent! I'm going to be alone, help, help

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Due to some strange circumstances, I'm going to be living alone for a month. I'm a young person who has always lived with my family, and in a way, this helps a lot in preventing me from relapsing into a adiction. I need advice on how to stay strong during these days; I'm honestly scared. What advice could people who have always lived alone, or people whose experiences with companionship were never an obstacle to the growth of their addiction, give me?


r/NoFap • • 53m ago

Day83. Sometimes I still feel tempted

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Even so id say in Free from the addiction


r/NoFap • • 1h ago

Slip-Up Prevention - Urgent! Been keeping away from social media but tempted to relapse

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Really tempted to peek at reels of Cece rose Sophie rain or other hot OF models and bops while my gf is asleep.

I’m tired of how this addiction is ruining my sex life and seeing minor improvement but really tempted to just give into these urges and pump myself dumb with someone.


r/NoFap • • 1h ago

Slip-Up Prevention - Urgent! After an hour I will be alone at home 😰

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yeah that's it


r/NoFap • • 1h ago

I'm 25 and feel like I'm wasting my life. I don't know how to get out of this cycle.

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I'm 25, and I feel like I'm falling deeper and deeper into a rabbit hole that I don't know how to get out of.
I have what feels like a serious porn addiction, and I can't seem to put my phone down. I come home from work, spend hours on my phone, watch porn, and basically call it a day. I repeat this cycle over and over again, and before I know it, another day has passed without me doing anything meaningful for myself.
I've been off social media for a year, hoping it would help, but honestly, it hasn't made much of a difference. I've just continued with the same habits in other ways.
My confidence is practically nonexistent. I'm a virgin at 25, and although I have friends, I struggle socially much more than I used to. I feel like my social battery has gotten smaller and smaller, and I don't have the confidence to approach someone I'm interested in or even flirt with them. I feel like I've lost a lot of my happiness, too.
I constantly procrastinate on my responsibilities. I don't take proper care of myself, and I don't feel like I love or value myself enough to change that. I feel like I'm just floating through life, waiting for time to pass instead of actually living it.
Sometimes my friends invite me out, but I end up cancelling at the last minute. I have pretty bad social anxiety, and before going anywhere, I start imagining all the worst-case scenarios. I overthink everything until staying home feels easier than facing the anxiety.
The thing that scares me most is that I know something is wrong. I know what I should do to start changing my life. I know I should reduce my phone use, work on my habits, take care of myself, and start putting myself out there socially. But knowing what to do and actually doing it feel like two completely different things.
I don't feel like I have the discipline, motivation, or drive to change. Even when I become aware of how bad things have gotten, that feeling doesn't last long enough for me to do anything about it. I go back to my usual habits, and the cycle continues.
At this point, I feel genuinely depressed, and I don't know what the solution is anymore. I'm scared of wasting more years of my life like this, but I also feel like I'm watching myself do it without being able to stop.


r/NoFap • • 2h ago

Journal Check-In Day5

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I'm always here.


r/NoFap • • 4h ago

Relapse Report Relapsed and felt sorrow.

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The first time it happened. I cried. I cried. The thoughts? Gone. The temptation? Ceased to exist. If you ever need a reason as to why to stay off this stuff, you will not feel better. You will not feel satisifed. You will however feel behind, anger at yourself, disappointment, sadness, there's also chance that you will impair your thinking. You'd be willingly giving yourself debuffs. You will fall into the habit of going all out and feel horrible.

I know now with clear thoughts of the hormonal feelings that it's bad. Being exposed to this stuff is bad, it'll lead you to do things that you think you'll want to do and when it happens...you will onky feel shame and anger, and if it meant you spent money for this temporary urge..you'll also be out of money. Now with all that being said, it gets more tempting to break the streak the longer it goeson. And you will feel a release of sorts. But unless you have the will power to willingly start over and continue like nothing happened, then you will fall deeper.

What i know, its going to take a bit, maybe a week or two to feel that progress come.


r/NoFap • • 3h ago

Journal Check-In Day 96

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Another successful day loading


r/NoFap • • 7h ago

Question Is this normal or am I just in the calm before the storm?

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Hey everyone, about 6-7 months ago I had a 3 month NoFap streak and I’ve been following this topic for about 2 years now I’m on day 5 right now but I have no urges or cravings at all even when I see triggers I just don’t care and feel completely indifferent
Is this the calm before the storm? Or is it normal to feel this way?


r/NoFap • • 4h ago

New to NoFap Just started, I've always been alone on my failed attempts for years, wanna try talking about it here

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Hey guys, been always feeling ashamed even tho I needed help. Almost ruined my life and I'm starting from 0. One of my biggest targets is to quit porn. I deleted all my social media's, I only use YouTube which I always block any sensitive content I meet. Wish me luck comrads. Give me ideas. And the common ones don't work, I've been fighting for 6 years. So many failed attempts. Usually duo to the pressure of my life, but well... now that I finally faced that worst fate and fear. I got nothing to lose. Lonely, jobless, poor, and heartbroken. The only one who can save me is me and to do that first I gotta be able to focus.

Wish me luck comrads! I will edit everytjme I fail to make sure I won't forget my feelings after each.


r/NoFap • • 4h ago

Relapse Report Day 0

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Day 0 of no fap and no porn wish me luck I was on a 8 month streak but failed unfortunately view porn again even though I didn’t fap to it I relapsed and ejaculated and according to some people on the sub they are saying it’s a relapse and I’m taking their word for it I hope I could be better in the future and actually lock in like I said I went 8 months! My goal now is a year without porn masturbation I might fap maybe in the future but my true goal is to never view porn again


r/NoFap • • 47m ago

Day 23

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Jacking is foolish, and suppressing jacking is also foolish. The desire to jack itself is a sign something has went wrong. That the blatant understanding of how wasteful it is isnt there proves there is something wrong with you. What has went wrong? Youre unconscious, hence your pain and need to medicate with jacking. by forcing not jacking for some time, you can see where your energy goes, and use it as an anchor for witnessing to become holistic. Without building the energy, there is nothing to anchor your consciousness. We depend on god but god depends on us. No weak person ever reaches.


r/NoFap • • 1h ago

Journal Check-In Dia 286

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Empece la abstinencia de porno y masturbacion justo el 1 de enero y no he parado desde entonces. Me siento bien, cierto rechazo al porno aunque no del todo obviamente me atraen las chicas desnudas y ya no me dan muchas ganas de masturbarme, fuera de eso no me siento muy diferente.


r/NoFap • • 16h ago

I started no fap today Day 2 (19 M)

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(Sorry for any grammatical error)

so i hated porn and masturbation ever since i got introduced to it and i tried to stay away from it while all the guys in my class were doing it since class 6th, apparently some started it as early as 4th grade, but i never actually tried to fap or watch porn, but in class 11th i was struggling with a lot of stuff, other than my curriculum, things at home and all that. But that being said i think loneliness was my trigger which made me actually try watching porn to find that feeling of being loved and intimate with someone, it was disgusting then and still is but my brain just got used to it, i got addicted to it fast and very very badly, i mean i once jerked of 7 times in few hours and basically felt the worst post nut clarity of my life, and not just that, after doing it rigorously for 2 years i started getting suicidal thoughts i wanted to live but my mind always showed me the worst of the worst at times, i was unattractive didn't have any actually good friends either, basically i felt completely hopeless and depressed at that time, my family was also is massive debts so i was basically suffering every day rather than actually living and i am still recovering from it, i mean these days it is not that bad things have gotten better and my fapping is under control i am working on myself and family situation has gotten better but one thing that still bugs me is my masturbation addiction it didn't help me when i was in trouble and only made the pain worse and i don't wanna keep this piece in my puzzle so i wanna quit this now.

Today's day 2 still a long way to go, btw i am 19M, teens who are younger than me, if you by any chance read this please run away from all this as fast as you can it is a trap you cannot not fall into it if you stay near it and it is not coming from a saint, i used to be top of my class, masturbation made me feel hopeless cause i was loosing control of my very body and it led me to self harm my scores dropped from a topper to a average student, i had many hobbies and talents and they called me gifted cause i was a sort of prodigy child but all this shit ruined me and tore me piece by piece and it was so painful for me to be average because i never knew what average looked like everyone thought i was ok cause my failure was considered average, before this i had never struggled with focusing on studies i did it for hours without any external motivation and understood everything fast.

All in all masturbation was a major catalyst in my downfall and i am not denying my incompetency either but i thing it was the fuel that kept the negativity in me burning so long that it led me to this downfall, right now i am on a drop year preparing for an entrance exam and this might potentially be the turning point of my life, my exam's in next may wish me luck also i continued my hobbies and i still follow them. Thank you for reading this may God bless yall

Peace


r/NoFap • • 14h ago

Advice I'm sorry but u need to read this

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Hello everyone, it's been almost two months for me nofap, and I posted my one month mark with u, and all of u showed support and the post reached almost 180k views with a thousand upvots. And I'm really thankful for that, it genuinely motivated me to continue my journey. But today I was particularly free and wondered the thoughts of nofap and realised that masterbating is not wrong, it's about porn and addiction about those things.

I just wanna say that don't let the nofap decide ur worth. People literally get so frustrated and overwhelmed after they break their streak. Which is totally wrong, nofap should be about getting off the addiction of porn. And ik that someone will say in the comments that it's a way to success and it's true and it is self mastery, self control and many things but only caring about nofap so much so that u get overwhelmed just because u lost ur streak.

This is not a game, this is our life. In our precious life, we are defying the laws of mathematics to birth and have life. Things like nofap should be a part of our life not the whole life. U all need to realise this that failing a streak or even getting the streak to a higher number isn't failure or success respectively. It's good to have a streak but don't let this decide that breaking it means I'm not strong. U r strong. U deserve all the love, this universe has to offer. U r a worthy person in ur own life and in everyone's life.

All I want to say is never let these things decide what is wrong or right, be yourself, expressing yourself to the fullest. And never let these things make u sad or anything else. U r doing really great and u will succeed in ur life, idc if the success is just one step or a million steps, it is success. This message is to everyone who is feeling low and I hope this will make u feel better even if it's 1%.


r/NoFap • • 2h ago

Journal Check-In 5 almost 6 days

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had a relapse but took a vacation and now I’m headed down the right path, how’s everyone else’s journey?


r/NoFap • • 6h ago

Advice I have a difficulty dealing with frustration

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(15M) Normally I use stressful days and bad events as a justification to masturbate. Has someone got any advice to deal with that? Thanks