Share all useful advice over here and try to keep the thread on topic
I'll start:
The correct way to keep your counter IS NOT the streak, forget about the streak, it will only make things worse in the long run
Illustrated:
Streak style counting: You nofap for x days and then relapse, since you glorified the x number and now that number is 0 you might start relapsing again and again because you'll start thinking that there's nothing to lose and you can start your streak later. Remember, the health benefit isn't calculated in streaks
Correct counting: After relapsing you don't wipe off the x number, you simply add a second number, so it would be the amount of days/amount of relapses, your number would now be x/1, you will not see a reason to relapse again because now you'll make your number twice as worse. This simple change in the way you keep track of things WILL help you to not have consecutive relapses, which are the most harmful types. In fact the less the window between the relapses the worse are the effects on health, and if the difference is less than a day then it becomes really bad.
Forget about the calendar for the same reason, it's just a way to delay your actions to the next monday/month/year, if you want to start then you're starting right now
Also everyone has probably heard of the test boost effects on every seventh day, I've personally never got those drastic boosts but because of my false expectations I relapsed after day 7 the first time I reached it. Just forget about the 7 day crap, it might be true for someone but for others like me the effects are going upwards very smoothly. Amateur nofappers after hearing about it will just wait till day 7+1 and quit if the effects aren't crazy as the internet images promised, I'm pretty sure this happened to a lot of people, my advice is to just keep going on as much as you can which will be achieved only by not expecting some kind of magic during a milestone
Don't measure your penis length, when you do it you try to make it as hard as possible and keep it that way for a few seconds, this might potentially lead to a relapse, possibly a porn relapse too since you'll think that it'll help you to keep the penis hard
In general it's really easy to relapse if you've build up a lot of semen, be really careful with your penis, you might do things that might cause a relapse on an accident, things like ejaculating while washing your penis feel unnatural for you but they might become the reality, so be careful. For uncuts: don't stretch the foreskin forward, doing so has a stronger effect than masturbation and you might cum from it, I did relapse this way and was really shocked since I didn't want nor expected to relapse at all, don't repeat my mistake. Don't stretch the foreskin forward ever, even to wash the penis or correct the foreskin, move it gently so that it isn't stretched.
Picrelated, don't think about how good it is to recieve pleasure when masturbating, think about how good it is to be healthy instead and how once you orgasm everything is gone, while the health benefits are always going to be with you. You need to stop thinking about how good the thing you're craving for is, focus on how bad it is instead and you'll be happy instead of stressed during your journey.
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