[sabellito]

Your advice to the comment, sadly, amounts to someone telling a drug addict to "just not use drugs", or a depressed person to "just go outside".

[boppo1]

Cold turkey is a legitimate addiction strategy. Not successful for everyone though, and basically impossible for most people with the internet.

[zeta0134]

Ah, perhaps it has been misinterpreted. That was not my intent. "Take occasional breaks, they seem to help" was the goal, not "stop entirely and never start again."

[throwamon]

Taking occasional breaks may be worse from an addiction point of view.

Relevant Sapolsky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2muJ0e9bvcI

[sabellito]

It might also be that we're both interpreting "internet addiction" with different severities, which would lead to different suggestions.