There isn’t a set time frame for overcoming a fapping addiction, as it varies for each person. Some might feel in control after a few months, while others could take longer. Some delusional men can feel confident that the addiction is gone because they haven’t fapped in one month, then often that pride is met with a fall.

There will be no formal notification, or email telling you the addiction is over.

The addiction leaves in the same way that a headache does: gradually and silently.

One day you look back and realise you don’t need to do it anymore.

Once you are automatically relying on healthy ways of dealing with stress, doubt, boredom, sadness, and loneliness, then you can be confident that the brain no longer sees pornography as a good method of stress-reduction, so it will be gone from your list of stress-reduction methods.