[ViktorRay]

If people are addicted to something then the only thing they can do to stop being addicted is to quit cold turkey.

Now in some cases that may be harder to do. If one has a food addiction or a smartphone related addiction for example. But in those cases you can certainly cold quit certain addictive foods or apps. When people “cold turkey” quit unhealthy addictive foods people often say they these people are “on a diet.” But really what is going on is that these people have “cold turkey” quit eating the bad foods and only eat healthy foods.

Do the same with the internet. Cold turkey quit the addictive unhealthy junk apps like a food dieter would cold turkey quit eating addictive unhealthy junk food. Only use the internet STRICTLY for work/school or direct 1 to 1 communication with a loved one such a friend or a family member.

That’s how you stop spending time on the addictive feed.

Some people say that they have to use Facebook for work/school or whatever. In that case just treat it like email. Set a timer for 5 minutes. Use Facebook on your laptop (NOT your phone) for 5 minutes in the morning and then for 5 minutes in the afternoon. If you do this you can still use it for whatever without being addicted to the feed.

[OJFord]

> If people are addicted to something then the only thing they can do to stop being addicted is to quit cold turkey.

Haven't you gone on to prove yourself wrong by mentioning food diets? Many/most of which are not quitting something cold turkey?

Unless you're going to tell me that e.g. 'intermittent fasting' is quitting eating on Wednesdays or 0000-2200h cold turkey, like that was the addiction.

[ViktorRay]

People on food diets quit the unhealthy foods in a “cold turkey” way.

Many of us have no issue eating the occasional nacho or chocolate cake or drinking a coke here and there. Other people do have issues controlling their intake of these junk foods. I meant that people quit the junk food “cold turkey.”

So the digital analogue is quitting the “junk apps” in a cold turkey kind of way….

[wkat4242]

Well a cold turkey diet sounds pretty delicious though a little unbalanced.