[ivars]

Probably the same way you fight any addiction - you either starve it out or replace it with something that doesn't hurt your performance.

Do you listen to music with lyrics? Replacing it with ambient music with no words and no distinctive melody could be one solution.

Or, in my opinion, a better solution would be to dig deeper and to find out why silence causes you anxiety and discomfort. For hundreds of thousands of years people have worked in complete silence. Are you mentally avoiding something?