NoFap

How to begin your NoFap journey.

1. Delete all downloaded pron, easy-to-access pron, bookmarks, accounts etc
2. Delete any triggering social media (tiktok, instagram, reddit etc)
3. Identify any triggers and make strategies to deal with them
4. Sleep early

## Deleting pron

If you have any downloaded porn, it doesn't matter how much time you spent into curating it or how much money you spent on gathering it - delete it now. There's absolutely no reason to keep it other than to watch later, so if you keep it you're admitting that you''ll never be free of the shackles of fapping. If you have any accounts related to pron forums, or bookmarks to your favorite websites etc then delete those as well (and also delete them from the recycling bin).

## Deleting social media

For some reason a lot of people don't do this and cry about giving into fapping.

If you're using tiktok for example, it's almost impossible not to see a thot on your fyp (for you page) even if you've clicked 'not interested' on them a 100 times. Hence I would encourage you to delete tiktok, no questions asked, since most of your time is probably spent on the fyp.

Another popular app is instagram, where if you're following thots of course you're going to see thot content. Now on the other hand if you don't follow thots and you don't use the explore page, then instagram isn't so horrible when it comes to NoFap. Even so, I would delete instagram for other reasons.

Reddit is another app which provides easy access to tons of pron content and is also host to a bunch of degnerates anyway. I would say delete it, although I would consider it slightly better than instagram and much better than tiktok IF you don't subscribe to nsfw subreddits or anything that could lead to browsing those subreddits.

I've never used twitter but I guess it's not so bad if you don't follow any nsfw accounts, but social media in general is pretty terrible so it isn't a horrible idea to delete it.

I haven't used facebook in a decade so idk about its effects.

## Identify triggers

Once you've started your NoFap journey, you'll realise it isn't as easy as 'just stop doing it'. You'll face times and situations when you're triggered into wanting to fap, so I've made a list of popular and potential triggers and how to deal with them.

* Stress - A lot of people fap to deal with their stress. Perhaps you have an assignment due or you're struggling with finding a job. Now if you think through it for even 10 seconds, you'll realise how useless fapping is when it comes to dealing with stress and how it actually worsens it. Sure, you forget about the stress during the act. However, let's think about the aftermath, which lasts much, much longer. First of all, you waste time fapping so if you were stressed about an assignment, then now you have even less time to do the assignment. Secondly, fapping decreases your energy levels so if you're stressed about some kind of work, then fapping will simply make it worse. Thirdly, you'll ineveitably regret fapping and end up even more stressed than before you did so. Overall, it actually increases stress.
* Boredom - So you're bored and what better to do when bored than fap? WRONG. Go do something productive. If you can't think of anything, make a list of goals you want to achieve and start working on those instead of doing the absolutely useless, life-wasting act of fapping.
* Time/Habit - So you're used to fapping at certain times and when that time comes you feel a huge urge to fap, For many people it's at night, for some people it's in the morning right when they wake up. The solution is pretty simple, if it's at night, go to sleep immediately and do not keep your devices next to you. Even if you struggle for 3 hours in bed trying to sleep, DO NOT TOUCH THAT DEVICE. If it's the morning, just wake up and start your day instead of being a loser and fapping to begin your day. If it's at certain times during the day, then just do something productive and refer to 'Boredom' above.
* Random erection - Unfortunately you have a random erection and like you've dealt with it the last 100+ times, you feel absolutely compelled to get rid of it by fapping. Some solutions are to just wait it out and realise that absolutely noone is forcing you to fap and that the boner will disappear after a few minutes. You could also try and contract your thigh muscles which is said to help move blood flow away from the private part to your thighs, thus getting rid of your boner. You could also just get up and walk for a bit. Whatever you do, don't fap.
* NSFW trigger >:( - Unfortunately, you've come across a thot online and now you're having trouble getting rid of the thoughts. If the thot was found on social media, then delete whatever social media you found her on if possible. If that's not possible, then close the app immediately and go do something productive, go to sleep, get up etc. Whatever you do, DO NOT DWELL ON THOSE THOUGHTS or you'll build up a fantasy and make excuses to fap again.
* New content - This might be a bit specific but it did apply to me and this is basically that 'fear' of not seeing the girls you love doing new content, or potential thots making an onlyfans and being able to subscribe to them (pathetic I know). At the end of the day you have to realise that there'll ALWAYS be new content and there'll ALWAYS be new thots as girls are exposed to the degeneracy of society. Does that mean you want to be fapping for the rest of your life? NO.
* Peek - So unfortunately you've peeked at some pron, and now you're all worked up. First of all you really shouldn't have, but that doesn't mean that now you should fap. Peeking is absolutely not an excuse to fap, however it's still horrible and NoFap also means NoPorn, so don't ever peek and even if you have, don't give in to the temptation of fapping.
* Reward - So you've done good for the day or days or week or weeks or month or months and you feel like having a 'reward', a session of fapping. After you're done, you're going to feel depressed just as you have every other 100 times you've done it. You'll also probably end up doing it many more times before you end up on a good streak again (this isn't an excuse to do it many more times even if you have relapsed).

## Sleep early/Wake up early

This is self-explanatory but sleep early. Absolutely do not stay awake past midnight and preferably go to sleep before 10:30pm or so if possible. You also don't want to wake up any later than 10am.