paperfere.blogg.se - Remove cold turkey

You might think about gaming all the time you might even dream about it. The goal is to remove everything about gaming from your life.Īfter you start the challenge, the first few days will be the most difficult because the withdrawal symptoms kick in strong. This is often unnecessary and impossible (especially if you also use your gaming laptop for work) but in extreme cases, you need to take extreme measures. If you don’t have any devices to play on, you simply won’t play. If you delete your steam account, you lose your steam library and you won’t buy games again.

If you delete your MMO characters, the pain of going back to that game is too high. Permanently delete your characters and accounts. If you decided to quit forever, it would be much more difficult to stay committed to the challenge. If you think you might learn to game in moderation after the challenge is over, the end date helps. Having an end date helps you stick with this challenge. After your challenge ends, you can still play the games you’re looking forward to.

Start tracking days and count when your gaming challenge ends.

Decide for how long you are going to quit gaming.

Delete your Youtube history to prevent recommendations connected to gaming.

Stop following all Youtube channels connected to gaming.

Delete all gaming apps and yes, we mean everything.

Quitting has more steps than you might think, but you must: The decision to quit gaming can be planned in advance, but more often than not we simply get sick of our own life and decide to purge everything spontaneously. To quit gaming excessively you need to do 2 things: This is why you need to build a new life around more satisfying endeavors. That's why people often hop from one addiction to the next (from gaming to surfing Reddit and other sites the whole day).

If you’re addicted to gaming, quitting alone won’t solve all your issues because you play games to escape something. Your reasoning might even be as simple as “if I can’t quit, it means I really need it.” Maybe you’re really dissatisfied with your life in the moments you aren’t playing, or maybe you realize all the detrimental effects gaming has on your life and you decide to do something about it. You also need real reasons to undertake this challenge. To be able to do this, you will require strong motivation. If you think 90 days are too daunting, go for 30. It has to be at least 30 days but I have found quitting for 90 or 100 days is usually the most effective because it’s long enough to reshape your whole life. This helps you rethink your relationship with gaming and also helps you break the equation “free-time = game-time”. Addiction is defined by an inability to control yourself, therefore most people who try to go from obsessive to moderate gaming usually fail.Ī more effective way is to quit cold turkey for a certain period of time. That’s why you have the problem in the first place. If you’re addicted to gaming, moderation from the get-go is very difficult. If you decide to do so, there are two ways to do it: gaming in moderation or quitting cold turkey.

In the previous part we talked about why you should quit obsessive gaming.