“the addicted mind will find a way to rationalize continued use at all costs”
Alan Carr wrote a series of books: “The easy way to quit X”. I picked up one since I figured he had found a process to cure addictive behaviors if he could write across so many categories. I highly recommend it. The main points are:
Give you 200 pages explaining why you don’t actually enjoy X. Not that it’s making your life worse but gives you momentary pleasure, you do not enjoy it.
I assume it’s hypnotizing you into an emotional revulsion to the activity, and then giving you reasons with which to remind yourself that you don’t like it.
Decide you will never do/consume X again. You don’t like it remember? You will never even think if you should X, you’ve decided permanently.
If every day you decided not to X, you’d be draining will power till one day you’d give in. So make an irreversible decision and be done with it.
It’s a process easily transferable to any other activity.
“the addicted mind will find a way to rationalize continued use at all costs”
Alan Carr wrote a series of books: “The easy way to quit X”. I picked up one since I figured he had found a process to cure addictive behaviors if he could write across so many categories. I highly recommend it. The main points are:
Give you 200 pages explaining why you don’t actually enjoy X. Not that it’s making your life worse but gives you momentary pleasure, you do not enjoy it.
I assume it’s hypnotizing you into an emotional revulsion to the activity, and then giving you reasons with which to remind yourself that you don’t like it.
Decide you will never do/consume X again. You don’t like it remember? You will never even think if you should X, you’ve decided permanently.
If every day you decided not to X, you’d be draining will power till one day you’d give in. So make an irreversible decision and be done with it.
It’s a process easily transferable to any other activity.